Occupational stressors and its organizational and individual correlates: A nationwide study of Norwegian ambulance personnel

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sterud, Tom ^a   Hem, Erlend ^a   Ekeberg, Øivind ^a   Lau, Bjørn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTROVERSION; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; JOB SATISFACTION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMBULANCES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149347361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-8-16     Document Type: Article

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