APSK05115U Elective course - Psychosocial Job Stress and Chronic Disease
Psychosocial Job Stress and Chronic
Disease
Can social conditions at work cause disease? What are the
mechanisms? How do we assess and quantify social conditions and
their effects? How do adverse psychosocial conditions affect the
employees? These and other questions are the topics for the course.
The course is inter_disciplinary, and will introduce commonly used
models of work-related stress, as well as broadly applicable
methods for measuring the physiological effects of stress on the
body. These methods are useful in understanding the effects of job
stress and social stressors on health and wellbeing, with
applications for cardiovascular disease (CVD), depression,
metabolic illness, musculoskeletal pain, and asthma. The course
includes both structured lectures that introduce and review
various concepts and methods, and workshops where students
are encouraged to engage with fellow students and researchers from
the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE).
These workshops will cover topics such as job stress measurement,
cardiovascular monitoring of stress response, and linkages between
job stress biomarkers and chronic diseases.
The goal of elective courses is an expansion or an additional perspective upon the psychological field. This is achieved through theoretical or empirical engagement in themes within or related to the psychological science. Elective courses can be taken in the Department of Psychology or in other departments.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Total
- 28
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignment, one weekOne-week assignment
- Exam registration requirements
- Det er en forudsætning for opgaveaflevering ved alle valgfag, at den studerende har fået godkendt mindst 75 % fremmøde, men undervisningen er baseret på fuld deltagelse.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
- Se eksamensplan på KUnet
Criteria for exam assesment
Vejledende karakterbeskrivelse (Danish)
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- APSK05115U
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- C (Mon 13-17 + Wednes 8-17)
- Course capacity
- About 30 students per class, 15 Bachelor and 15 Master students
- Study board
- Department of Psychology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Psychology
Course responsibles
- Jesper Kristiansen (18-6d6876736875316e756c76776c64717668714373767c316e7831676e)