The association of sense of coherence and coping profile with stress among research park city workers in Japan

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 664-672

  Tomotsune, Yusuke ^a   Sasahara, Shinichiro ^a   Umeda, Tadahiro ^a   Hayashi, Mikiko ^a   Usami, Kazuya ^a   Yoshino, Satoshi ^a   Kageyama, Takayuki ^b   Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^c   Matsuzaki, Ichiyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BSCP; Coping profile; Field study; Mental health; SOC

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149135257     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.664     Document Type: Article

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