Quantitative overload: A source of stress in data-entry VDT work induced by time pressure and work difficulty

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-280

  Mazloum, Adel ^a,b   Kumashiro, Masaharu ^a   Izumi, Hiroyuki ^a   Higuchi, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c FUKUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Quantitative overload; Stress; Time pressure; VDT work; Work difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; JOB PERFORMANCE; KEYBOARD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 46049090557     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.269     Document Type: Article

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