Occupational stressors experienced by shift workers. A study on stressors experienced by shift workers working in a motor manufacturing plant in South Africa

Perhaps in this case one would not have drawn oneБЂ™s attention to much to be thankful for. Still there were worse plights imaginable, and I wasnБЂ™t sure I wasnБЂ™t in such a plight right now. Point of view clearly had something to do with personal location, but it was itself an unclear notion. It was obvious that the content of one point of view was not the same as or determined by the content of one beliefs or thoughts. For example, what should we say about the point of view of the Cinerama viewer who shrieks and twists in his seat as the roller-coaster footage overcomes his psychic distancing? Has he forgotten that he is safely seated in the theater? Here I was inclined to say that the person is experiencing an illusory shift in point of view. In other cases, my inclination to call such shifts illusory was less strong. The workers in laboratories and plants who handle dangerous materials by operating feedback-controlled mechanical arms and hands undergo shift in point of view that is crisper and more pronounced than anything Cinerama can provoke ...»