El estrés resalta la existencia de un desequilibrio entre las demandas (objetivas y subjetivas) del sujeto y sus recursos de control. Se recuerdan los distintos tipos de estrés (situacional, consecuente, psicosocial, reactivo, evolutivo), se analizan sus factores psicosociales y los diferentes modelos explicativos (activación, sobrecarga ambiental, adaptación, descontrol de la situación, sistémicos). Finalmente, se insiste en los ámbitos de intervención desde la perspectiva psicosocial tanto individual (particularmente las estrategias cognitivas) como estructural (modificando la cultura empresarial, los modelos de vida cotidiana y el economicismo como ideología imperante).
Stress makes evident the existence of an unstable equilibrium between the subject's desires (objetive and subjetive) and his ability to control his resources. The different types of stress (situational, consequential, psychosocial, reactive and evolutive) must be kept in mind. Psychosocial factors should be analysed as well as the different patterns of activation, ambient overload, adaptation and discontrol of the situational systemic explained. Finally, one must insist upon the circuit of intervention from the psychosocial perspective, individual (particularly the cognitives strategies), as well as structural (modification of the empresarial culture, daily life patterns, and economics as a ruling ideology).