Mr. Everton reports that his job is uninteresting and he feels there might be a better way of doing it. He says he is afraid to make suggestions. He also reports whenever someone makes an error, they are quickly removed and he never sees them again. Mr. Everton is experiencing which component of the psychosocial factors of ergonomics?
A) Cognitive overload
B) Extra-work environment factor
C) Cognitive underload
D) Work environment factor

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The NIOSH (1997) reports three main categories of psychosocial factors that may influence how workers perceive their jobs, and which can ultimately have an impact on the worker's physical health. These include factors associated with the work environment, factors associated with the extra-work environment, and their personal characteristics. Work environment factors may include interpersonal relationships at work, perceived individual control of the job tasks, the level of interest or engagement in the work tasks, financial or other benefits of the job, and organizational structure as it supports or inhibits the individual. The extra-work environment refers to factors that occur outside of work, but which may have an impact on the job, such as work-life balance and roles within the family or community. Finally, the individual's personal characteristics that may influence health include personality and disposition, gender, education, cultural factors, and social class (Erez, 2008). Although these categories have initially been initially described by NIOSH, the inclusion of factors outside of the work environment provides a useful framework for the occupational therapist to consider psychosocial factors in the community.

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