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Schieman states, "Power at work does have drawbacks, and the negative impact on personal health -- both emotional and physical -- is one of them.”

The University of Toronto article concludes by stating, “These findings help explain a lingering paradox in sociological research about job stress: Higher status positions have attributes that should contribute to less stress and better health, but people with authority at work don't seem to have better health."

And, "This study sheds new light on the underlying dynamics.”

The research by the two authors was published in the journal Work and Occupations (Vol. 35, No. 3, 296-326 (2008) DOI: 10.1177/0730888408322448).

The title of their paper is “Job Authority and Interpersonal Conflict in the Workplace.”

The two researchers conclude in the abstract to their paper, “These observations have implications for theoretical views about social status variations in job authority and its link to interpersonal stress in the workplace.”

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