Do you find yourself “stress bragging” to colleagues? This could be detrimental to your professional reputation. Stress bragging can be a round-a-bout way of communicating that you are a valuable hard worker, “but it doesn’t work.” Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story.
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00:00Do you find yourself stress-bragging to colleagues?
00:03This could be detrimental to your professional reputation.
00:06HuffPost reports,
00:08a study published in Personnel Psychology
00:10found that people who brag about being stressed at work
00:13are viewed as less competent and likable by their colleagues.
00:18Researcher Jessica Rodell explains,
00:20stress-bragging can be a roundabout way of communicating
00:24that you are a valuable hard worker,
00:26but it doesn't work.
00:28A large reason why stress-bragging commonly happens
00:31is that we still live in a society that glorifies being busy.
00:35This is according to Shannon Garcia,
00:37a psychotherapist at States of Wellness Counseling.
00:41If we are pushing ourselves to the max and beyond at work,
00:45we want people to know about it.
00:47Though it could look like you can't handle the job load,
00:50or you could be adding to the stress you feel.
00:53And not just to you,
00:55but to your colleagues too.
00:57The more you are with somebody who's bragging about stress,
01:00the more stressed you are likely to feel.