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as the company physician for a small factory that has a mixture of hourly workers, engineers, and executives. The company is under stress because of falling profits and competition with foreign manufacturers. You are aware of a number of stresses in the workplace from uncertainty about the future of the company to interpersonal conflict.
Which of the following psychological stresses is likely to have the most adverse impact on physical health?
A. Regressiveness
B. Interpersonal conflict
C. Confusion
D. Uncontrollability
E. Fearfulness

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It's E

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The answer is: D

While fearfulness, confusion, interpersonal conflict, and regression can generate stress that can have a direct effect on biologic responses, the loss of perceived control can take an even greater toll on the body. Excessive workload and job responsibility are stressful factors in terms of coronary risk, but they become even more powerful and biologically more destructive when they approach the limit of a person's capacity to control his or her own work. Whether the stress is from employment, unemployment, finance, family, disease, or other factors, the threat of loss or actual loss of control over one's being or activities appears to be the most devastating influence. Different people also have considerable variability in their responsiveness to a lack of or loss of control; this responsiveness then has a subsequent effect on their biologic processes.