CLUSTERS

CROLS’s activity is organised around the following five clusters:

• Occupational and life stress: Legal and public policy implications.

  This cluster focuses on topics such as: employers’ responsibilities regarding workplace stress; stress-related ill-health and employer liability; use of psychometric tests in occupational stress contexts; the legal status of predispositions to psychological stress vis-à-vis disability legislation.

• Stress in education and professional training.

  This cluster focuses on topics such as: impact of training stress on training efficacy; impact of training stress on physical health and health behaviour; interventions for reducing stress in educational contexts.

• Stress, health, and wellbeing.

  This cluster focuses on topics such as: basic physiological processes linking psychological stress to physical ill health, such as those that mediate cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune functioning; empirical models of stress-targeted interventions; personality, social-psychological, and demographic variations in susceptibility to stress and stress responsiveness.

• Stress, work, and productivity.

  This cluster focuses on topics such as: impact of occupational stress and organisational performance indicators; impact of occupational stress on absenteeism and turnover; ergonomic, psychological, and social determinants of occupational stress.

• Social inequality and life stress.

  This cluster focuses on topics such as: life stress among socially marginalised groups; impact of multiple marginalisation on stress and coping; identification of risk factors for self-injurious behaviour in response to stress; variables contributing to resilience among members of marginalised groups.

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