The role of workload and driver coping styles in predicting bus drivers' need for recovery, positive and negative affect, and physical symptoms

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-375

  MacHin, M Anthony ^a   Hoare, P Nancey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive coping; Bus drivers; Maladaptive coping; Need for recovery; Negative affect; Physical symptoms; Positive affect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 49449094624     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800701766049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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