Relationship between job stress and self-rated health among Japanese full-time occupational physicians

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 227-232

  Shimizu, Takashi ^a   Nagata, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Job stress; Occupational physicians; Self rated health; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS;

EID: 26244449499     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.10.227     Document Type: Article

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