Social support at work as a buffer of work stress-strain relationship: A signal detection approach

Stress Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-81

  Hagihara, Akihito ^a,b,c   Tarumi, Kimio ^a,b   Miller, Alan S ^a,b,c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buffer; Signal detection analysis; Social support; Strain; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0031921266     PISSN: 07488386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1700(199804)14:2<75::AID-SMI758>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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