Associations between psychological demands, decision latitude, and job strain with smoking in female hotel room cleaners in Las Vegas

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-43

  Rugulies, Reiner ^a,d   Scherzer, Teresa ^b   Krause, Niklas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cigarettes; Job strain; Occupational health; Psychological; Stress; Work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; COVARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; JOB STRESS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOUSEKEEPING; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EFFICACY; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 41349102786     PISSN: 10705503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03003072     Document Type: Article

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