ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some self-reports of physical complaints appear to be at least as much psychological as they are physical and these were under the rubric somatic complaints. Individual strains are the outcomes that, because of their association with job stressors, define the existence of a job stress situation. These outcomes can be divided into three categories: psychological, physical or physiological, and behavioral. When the psychological strain called burnout occurs in the human services areas, it probably has unique characteristics as depersonalization of those people receiving the services. Transitory factors are immediate factors that affect measurement and include time of day, room temperature and humidity, posture of subjects and recent physical exertion and consumption of stimulants or some other dietary elements. McGrath and Beehr argued that stress producing environmental circumstances SPECs (stress producing events and conditions), need to be classified in a way that could explain their relationships to temporal factors.
