Job stress and healthy behavior among male Japanese office workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1128-1134

  Nomura, Kyoko ^a   Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a   Tsurugano, Shinobu ^a   Takeuchi, Takeaki ^a   Inoue, Mariko ^a   Shinozaki, Yasuko ^a   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health promotion at workplace; Healthy behavior; Job stress; Lifestyle modification; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIET; EMPLOYMENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORK; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIET; EMPLOYMENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958473376     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20859     Document Type: Article

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