Interpreting as a stressful activity: physiological measures of stress in simultaneous interpreting

Korpal, Paweł

doi:10.1515/psicl-2016-0011

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“…These findings are supported by Roziner and Shlesinger (2010, p. 219), who investigated remote interpreting at the European Parliament and concluded that "simultaneous interpreting is a particularly stressful occupation, as it requires the interpreter to simultaneously listen, analyse, comprehend, translate, edit and produce a speaker's utterance in real-time." Korpal (2016) investigated the causal relationship between a speaker's rate of delivery and the level of stress experienced by trainee interpreters and concluded that "simultaneous interpreting may indeed be considered a stressful activity" (Korpal 2016, p. 311). Bontempo and Napier (2011, p. 85) have described a "mini-explosion" of research on sign language (SL) interpreters.…”

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Translators' experiences of occupational stress and job satisfaction

Courtney

Phelan

2019

Trans-Int

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While empirical evidence suggests that interpreters experience high levels of both occupational stress and job satisfaction, there has been little research on the experience of translators. Using a quantitative questionnaire consisting of seven questions, this participant-based study measures the self-perceived occupational stress and job satisfaction levels of 474 translators who are members of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (UK) or the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. Respondents experience stress due to factors such as perceived unfair treatment from agencies, poor remuneration and uncertainty about the future. However, as with interpreters, despite these negatives, respondents generally exhibit high to extremely high job satisfaction.

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Translators' experiences of occupational stress and job satisfaction

Courtney

Phelan

2019

Trans-Int

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“…In order to overcome health risks faced by these students, EI interventions are believed to be useful for empowering them and helping them to employ functional coping strategies. Like health professionals, translators and interpreters can also be subject to stressful situations, both during their training and when practicing in real-life contexts (Bontempo & Malcolm, 2012;Korpal, 2016;Roziner & Shlesinger, 2010). They may be asked to interpret for patients in hospitals, for criminals in courts, or they may have to translate death certificates or autopsy reports.…”

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The Psychology of Sustainability and Psychological Capital: New Lenses to Examine Well-Being in the Translation Profession

Hubscher-Davidson

2020

EUROPEAN J SUSTAINAB DEV

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The psychology of sustainability and sustainable development is a new research area which involves optimizing and regenerating personal resources in order to establish meaningful lives and work experiences (Di Fabio, 2017). The concept of psychological capital (PsyCap) has been linked to the psychology of sustainability due to its potential role in promoting well-being in organizations and improving people's health and performance. However, this area of sustainability science is currently absent from the translation studies literature despite its relevance for professional translators' work in today's challenging and competitive environment. In line with the argument that sustainability principles apply to a variety of disciplines, the purpose of this article is to introduce the value of the psychology of sustainability for organizational and individual well-being via key concepts of relevance to the translation profession. Within this trans-disciplinary reflection space (Di Fabio and Rosen, 2018), I will also consider the research evidence for adopting a primary prevention perspective for the benefit of professional translators. Examining translator behaviour through the lens of the psychology of sustainability is a new and exciting venture that has the potential to reframe professional perspectives and translators' career paths.

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“…Bower (2015) pointed out the cause of work exhaustion that the requirement for an objective resulted in individual value excessively pursuing the work, not being able to eff ectively cope with it to generate working pressure and frustration, gradually perceiving emotional exhaustion, and facing with negative attitudes and reducing work motivation and achievement to further damage the work performance and physical health. Korpal (2016) regarded work exhaustion as the function of individual perceived pressure. Under long-term pressure, an individual might shrink back from or not be willing to devote to the work to result in physical, emotional, and attitude exhaustion and further aff ect the quality of work.…”

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A Study on the Correlation between Working Pressure and Job Satisfaction from the Viewpoint of Work Exhaustion

Huang¹,

Wang²

2019

RCIS

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Under the rapid industrialization, the country has become a major high-tech industry in Asia. Being an important industry in domestic strategic development, high-tech industry attracts a lot of manpower. During the depression after the fi nancial crisis, organizations' adoption of layoff s and unpaid leave to increase work or transfer positions induced employees' worries. There was news about hi-tech millionaires dying young of overwork in past years. Working pressure therefore became the major problem emphasized by human resource managers. Stress management related issues have been discussed academically or practically in recent years. Aiming at high-tech employees of Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan, 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed and 387 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 77%. The research results reveal 1.positive relations between working pressure and work exhaustion, 2.negative relations between work exhaustion and job satisfaction, and 3.negative relations between working pressureandjob satisfaction. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to assist high-tech industry in improving employees'working pressure to largely benefi t employee health and industrial yield.

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Interpreting as a stressful activity: physiological measures of stress in simultaneous interpreting

Abstract: AbstractThe question of interpreter aptitude has been widely discussed in Interpreting Studies (e.g.

Cited by 45 publications

References 34 publications

Translators' experiences of occupational stress and job satisfaction

Translators' experiences of occupational stress and job satisfaction

The Psychology of Sustainability and Psychological Capital: New Lenses to Examine Well-Being in the Translation Profession

A Study on the Correlation between Working Pressure and Job Satisfaction from the Viewpoint of Work Exhaustion

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