Sickness absence in relation to psychosocial work factors among daytime workers in an electric equipment manufacturing company

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 224-231

  Otsuka, Yasumasa ^a   Takahashi, Masaya ^a   Nakata, Akinori ^a   Haratani, Takashi ^a   Kaida, Kosuke ^a,b   Fukasawa, Kenji ^a   Hanada, Takanobu ^c   Ito, Akiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Division of Dialysis and Apheresis   (Japan)

Author keywords

Occupation; Presenteeism; Psychosocial work factors; Sex; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORKER; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICK LEAVE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34249053860     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.224     Document Type: Article

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