Relations of occupational stress to occupational class in Japanese civil servants - Analysis by two occupational stress models

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-255

  Kawaharada, Mariko ^a   Saijo, Yasuaki ^b   Yoshioka, Eiji ^a   Sato, Tetsuro ^a   Sato, Hirokazu ^c   Kishi, Reiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c JR Sapporo Railway Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Civil servants; Effort Reward Imbalance Model; Job Demand Control Model; Occupational class; Occupational stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; JOB STRESS; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MANAGER; OFFICE WORKER; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34249284478     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.247     Document Type: Article

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