Work ethics and general work attitudes in adolescents are related to quality of life, sense of coherence and subjective health - A Swedish questionnaire study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Axelsson, Lars ^a,b   Andersson, Ingemar ^a   Håkansson, Anders ^b   Ejlertsson, Göran ^a  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ETHICS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; WELFARE; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; SWEDEN; WORK;

EID: 27644443722     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-103     Document Type: Article

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