Job demands, job control, and mental health in an 11-year follow-up study: Normal and reversed relationships

Work and Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 284-296

  Dalgard, Odd Steffen ^a   Sørensen, Tom ^b   Sandanger, Inger ^b   Nygård, Jan F ^c   Svensson, Elisabeth ^a   Reas, Deborah L ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Demands control model; Mental health; Reversed causal model; Work related stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350337883     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370903250953     Document Type: Article

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