Female executives are particularly prone to the sleep-disturbing effect of isolated high-strain jobs: A cross-sectional study in German-speaking executives

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-237

  Gadinger, Michael C ^a,d   Fischer, Joachim E ^a   Schneider, Sven ^a   Fischer, Gisela C ^b   Frank, Gunter ^c   Kromm, Walter ^a  

^a Mannheim Institute for Public Health   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c Medical Practice for General Medicine   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Industrial psychology; Sleep; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB STRESS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUSTRIA; CAFFEINE; CAREER MOBILITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWITZERLAND; WORKLOAD;

EID: 65749096254     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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