Day Laborers and Occupational Stress: Testing the Migrant Stress Inventory With a Latino Day Laborer Population

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-122

  Duke, Michael R ^a   Bourdeau, Beth ^a   Hovey, Joseph D ^b  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol problems; day laborers; Latino; scale development; stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DRUG USE; EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION; FACE VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRANT STRESS INVENTORY SCALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMPLOYMENT; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952167736     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018665     Document Type: Article

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