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All professionals work in a particular context that is specific to their occupational sector of activity. The nature of this activity generates constraints and specific demands. It is therefore legitimate to think that the professional sectors are impacted by stress in different ways. This is what this chapter proposes to illustrate by analyzing statistical data from around the world.
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Fauquet-Alekhine, P., Erskine, J. (2023). Stress in Different Professional Sectors. In: Fauquet-Alekhine, P., Erskine, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Occupational Stress. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27349-0_18
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