Stress In The Culinary Industry

In 2015, a survey was completed to determine what the sources in human’s lives that make them the most stressed out. It was shown that money (67%) and work (65%) were the main sources why humans get stressed out (“2015 Stress in America”). It can be inferred then that when most people are afflicted, it is because they have too much work strain or they are not making an adequate amount of money at work. In reality, should these be considered as everyday struggles though, since everyone deals with them? There is a statement where too much stress can be dangerous to one’s health, but this burden can be caused by certain occupations. When working in a professiom that is fast paced and full of problems that happen out of nowhere, such as the culinary …show more content…
There is no other point that would connect working in the culinary industry and developing a mental disability. In the book Job Stresssors and Mental Health: A Proactive Clinical Perspective, written by Karen Belki and Cedo Savic, it was established that, “Job strain occurs when one is overloaded from psychological work demands and at the same time deprived of control over one’s work environment. This untoward combination is predicted to give rise to increased risk of stress-related illness” (Belki and Savic 10). This demonstrates that when someone deals with extreme everyday tension, like in the culinary industry, there is a higher risk to develop some type of mental disability or even a mental illness. Job strain can be considered as an everyday stessor, and it has been concluded that frequent troubles have either a positive or negative effect on mental health. In the article “The Effects of Daily Stress on Postive and Mental Health: Medication Through Self-Efficacy/Efectos Del Estrés Cotidiano En La Salud Mental Positiva y Negativa: Mediación De La Autoeficacia” it was stated that there is an intense relationship between daily annoyancies and negative impacts on mental health and that those irritants can lead to depression and anxiety (Schönfeld, et al. 5). To conclude this, the authors of this article perfomed a study that sent questionaires to some of the German population and some college students. Once they answered the questions, the authors examined the results and put them into numbers. After which, they scaled those numbers on both the Depression Anixety Stress Scale and the Postive Mental Health Scale. It was then determined that stressors can lead to mental health issues, so working in a stressful event like the culinary industry could be harmful to one’s mental