Effort-reward imbalance, overcommitment, and measures of cortisol and blood pressure over the working day

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 323-329

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Siegrist, Johannes ^b   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^c   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Cardiovascular disease risk; Cortisol; Effort reward imbalance; Overcommitment; Socioeconomic position; Work stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAKEFULNESS; WORKPLACE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAKEFULNESS; WORK; WORKLOAD;

EID: 2442650213     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000126198.67070.72     Document Type: Article

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