Managing Job Stress: Cross-Cultural Variations in Adjustment

Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-70

  Eshun, Joseph P ^a   Kelley, Kevin J ^b  

^a EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural investigations of job stress and psychological adjustment; Defining stress and occupational stress; Definition of adjustment disorder; How culture shapes perception of stress; Individual organizational interface intervention; Managing job stress cross cultural variations in adjustment; Organizational level of intervention requiring modifications in work environment; Prevalence rates and costs of occupational stress across nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855669415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305807.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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