Job demands and job control as correlates of early retirement thoughts in Finnish social and health care employees

Work and Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 84-92

  Elovainio, Marko ^a,b   Forma, Pauli ^c   Kivimäki, Mika ^b   Sinervo, Timo ^a   Sutinen, Risto ^d   Laine, Marjukka ^e  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Local Government Pensions Institution   (Finland)

^d VAASA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disability pension; Early retirement; Health care employees; Job control; Job demands; Psychosocial factors; Social work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETIREMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 20144369068     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370500084623     Document Type: Article

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