Associations of effort-reward imbalance at work and reported symptoms in different groups of male and female public transport workers

Stress Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-182

  Peter, Richard ^a   Geißler, Heinrich ^a   Siegrist, Johannes ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

High effort; Low reward; Public transport workers; Reported symptoms; Work stress

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031816516     PISSN: 07488386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1700(199807)14:3<175::AID-SMI775>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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