Job control and coworker support improve employee job performance

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 845-851

  Nagami, Makiko ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Akizumi ^c   Tsuchiya, Masao ^d   Morimoto, Kanehis ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demand control model; Follow up survey; Job performance; Job stress; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE;

EID: 78650625222     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1162     Document Type: Article

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