Job Demands, Decisional Control, and Cardiovascular Responses

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 146-156

  Bishop, George D ^a   Enkelmann, Hwee Chong ^a   Tong, Eddie M W ^a   Why, Yong Peng ^a,c   Diong, Siew Maan ^a,b   Ang, Jansen ^b   Khader, Majeed ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Police Psychological Unit   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0038262835     PISSN: 10768998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-8998.8.2.146     Document Type: Article

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