%0 Journal Article %T An¨¢lisis cr¨ªtico de tres perspectivas psicol¨®gicas de estr¨¦s en el trabajo: Three Psychological Perspectives of Job Stress %A Cuevas-Torres %A Marilis %A Garc¨ªa-Ramos %A Tania %J Trabajo y sociedad %D 2012 %I Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero %X the purpose of this article is to critically examine three psychological perspectives of job stress. a literature review showed that these perspectives are the most frequently cited. the perspectives include two models of job stress: the demand control model and the effort-reward imbalance model; and one general theory of stress: the transactional theory. for each perspective, we present a general description, followed by a critical analysis of both the notions of humans and work. at the end of the article, we reached a conclusion for the critical analysis. %K job stress %K critical an¨¢lisis. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1514-68712012000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en