Maintenance of subjective health during a merger: The role of experienced change and pre-merger social support at work in white- and blue-collar workers

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1903-1915

  Väänänen, Ari ^a,b   Pahkin, Krista ^a   Kalimo, Raija ^a   Buunk, Bram P ^c  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employee status; Exhaustion; Finland; Functional incapacity; Organizational change; Social support

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; MERGER; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; EXHAUSTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ORGANIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK; WORK CAPACITY; WORKER;

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PERSONNEL DOWNSIZING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 1542328815     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.010     Document Type: Article

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