Two tools for health surveillance of job stress: The Karasek job content questionnaire and the siegrist effort reward imbalance questionnaire;Due strumenti per la sorveglianza sanitaria dello stress da lavoro: Il job content questionnaire di karasek e l'effort reward imbalance di siegrist

Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 667-670

  Magnavita, N ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Strain; Stress

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 39349103401     PISSN: 15927830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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