Adverse psychosocial working conditions and subjective health in freelance media workers

Work and Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-299

  Ertel, Michael ^a   Pech, Eberhard ^a   Ullsperger, Peter ^a   Von Dem Knesebeck, Olaf ^b   Siegrist, Johannes ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effort reward imbalance; Flexibility; Freelance media workers; Insecure work; Reduced ability to relax; Subjective health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PHYSICAL STRESS; REWARD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 31944437644     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370500307289     Document Type: Article

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