Hello and thank you for your interesting question.
There does not appear to be any survey data limited to investment
bankers, but there are UK health surveys that include the investment
banker segment:
"Stress and overwork was the only health and safety issue which
attained the 50% mark across all sectors. Of 13 identified sectors,
stress was cited by more than 70% of Safety Reps in the voluntary,
education, banking and finance sectors, local government (74%),
central government (72'%), health services (71% (71%), leisure
services (71% ) and transport and communications (70%). Workers in
agriculture, distribution and hotels, energy and water, and other
services all reported stress as a major problem."
Jobs Which Cause Stress
http://www.isma.org.uk/tucsurvey.htm
Much of the work in this area comes from the UK Trades Union Congress
Health & Safety - - Stress
http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/index.cfm?mins=37
"The number of people suffering from stress and stress related
conditions caused or made worse by work has more than doubled since
1990, says general union GMB. Pointing to new official HSC figures,
showing more people complaining of stress than back problems, GMB says
it is time there was legislation to force employers to take action on
stress."
GMB says there is twice the reason for a stress law
http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-5998-f0.cfm#_FEATURE
Stress at work tops safety poll
"The TUC report, shows stress is the number one concern for two out of
three safety reps (66%). It is the main concern across almost all
industrial sectors. Heavy workloads are cited as the main cause of
stress (74%) followed by cuts in staff (53%). Safety reps say long
hours are a more significant cause of stress than two years ago (up to
39% from 28% in 1998). Bullying remains a significant cause of stress
at work - mentioned by 30% of the reps who reported stress as a
problem. Bullying is more prevalent in the voluntary sector (45%),
banking and finance (43%), local (41%) and central government (41%)."
http://www.workstress.net/newsletters/newsjan01.htm
"Work related Stress is the result of a conflict between the role and
needs of the individual employee and organisational, personal or
ergonomic factors in their work place. There can also be an
unacceptable tension between the demands of work and the individuals’
life outside work. Stress is also often typified by a lack of control
over conditions at work."
UK National Work-Stress Network
http://www.workstress.net/downloads/network.rtf
"The idea of risk assessment for physical hazards is well-established.
More recently attention has focused on the assessment of risk from
psychosocial hazards and in doing so measures have been developed or
adopted from research to assess the prevalence of workplace
stressors."
A critical review of psychosocial hazard measures
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/crr_pdf/2001/crr01356.pdf
Headline: Stress 'biggest work health hazard'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1046366.stm
If you would like to broaden your inquiry beyond the banking world, I
recommend the following source and its search engine:
INTERNATIONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
http://www.isma.org.uk/
http://www.isma.org.uk/search.htm
Here's a related study among Swedish workers:
"[A] recent study published in the March issue of the American Journal
of Public Health has directly linked job stress with death from heart
disease. The study has followed about 12,500 Swedish working men,
studying stress factors on their job such as the pace of work and the
amount of control they had in setting the pace.
During the 14-year study period, 521 of these workers died of heart
disease (specifically, cardiovascular disease). The researchers found
that workers on jobs with a high speed of work and little control over
that speed died at about 2.5 times as often from heart disease than
those with slower-paced jobs and more control over their working
conditions. All results were adjusted for differences in age, smoking,
education, exercise, social class and physical job demands which could
have otherwise influenced the results."
JOB STRESS, HEART DISEASE
http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/h&s0596.html
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