Chronic work stress, sickness absence, and hypertension in middle managers: General or specific sociological explanations?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1111-1120

  Peter, Richard ^a   Siegrist, Johannes ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effort reward imbalance; Hypertension; Sickness absence; Work stress

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MANAGER; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION;

EID: 0030745821     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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