Interesting stuff, no doubt, in the finding that care workers who believe in their own effectiveness are less subject to burnout and other stress-related problems. There’s something to be said about the value of self worth.

But here, courtesy of the BPS and others, are five less likely research findings about stress at work and play.

1. Librarians have the most stressful jobs in the world. Psychologist Saqib Saddiq told the British Psychological Society this week that librarians were sick of being stuck between book shelves all day, complaining that their skills were not used and they had little control over their career.

2. Headteachers are bunking off school because of stress. According to the National Association of Head Teachers in 2005, 38% of all absence involving school heads is due to work-related stress – and the figure is rising fast.

3. Psychologists at McGill University in America are currently working on a drug that selectively wipes memories to remove the stress associated with traumatic events in patients’ past.

4. Airline cabin crews working in business class suffer less work-related stress than those in economy class. According to a 2003 study, the problem isn’t the threat of terrorism or the possibility of plummeting 30,000 feet during the course of a day’s work, it’s down to difficult and demanding passengers.

5. The stress of soccer shoot-outs in football matches may lead to a rise in heart attacks. But scientists at Bristol University are unable to test the theory because international football associations are unlikely to randomly allocate the use of penalty shoot-outs for the sake of randomised control tests.