Instrument for stress-related activity analysis
The Stress-Related Activity Analysis Tool (ISTA) is a tool that was developed in the 1980s to analyze commercial workplaces .
scope of application
ISTA is an instrument for measuring task, organization and work environment related stress. The instrument is a condition- related , quantitative expert method of environmental prevention . In the toolbox of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), it meets the quality criteria of reliability and validity.
One area of application of the ISTA is the investigation of the psychological stress caused by the working conditions in the context of the risk assessment prescribed in the occupational health and safety .
The method was developed on the basis of the transactional stress theory of Lazarus and the theory of action regulation . It identifies factors that are conducive to and hindering well-being and health, and clarifies relationships between resources and stressors .
- construction
The instrument is based on the so-called multi-method approach. Both a self-assessment (in the form of a questionnaire) and an assessment by an independent observer are used for this.
- Duration of the questionnaire (long version) approx. 45–60 min
- Duration of the observation interview approx. 2 hours
The focus here is on the work situation (condition-related analysis), not on the respective person (personal analysis).
- aims
- Measure stress-related task characteristics
- Estimate chronic stress, relief factors and requirements
- relevant characteristics for fluctuation and absenteeism
- Advice on necessary work organization measures
literature
- Norbert Semmer, Dieter Zapf , and Heiner Dunckel: Instrument for stress-related activity analysis (ISTA) . In Heiner Dunckel (ed.): Manual of psychological work analysis procedures (Mensch, Technik, Organization; Vol. 14) , vdf Hochschulverlag at the ETH, Zurich 1999, pp. 179–204
Individual evidence
- ↑ The relationship-oriented ISTA is not identical to the behavior-oriented "Ich-Structure-Test nach Ammon" used by the German Academy for Psychoanalysis , for which the acronym ISTA is occasionally also used.
- ↑ Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Toolbox: ISTA: Instrument for Stress-Related Work Analysis, Version 6.0
- ↑ Ulich Eberhard, Industrial Psychology, Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag; Edition: 6th, revised and expanded edition. (September 20, 2005)