Psychosocial safety climate moderates the job demand-resource interaction in predicting workgroup distress

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 694-704

  Dollard, Maureen F ^a   Tuckey, Michelle R ^a   Dormann, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distress; Job demands; Job resources; Multilevel; Psychosocial safety climate; Work stress

Indexed keywords

DISTRESS; JOB DEMANDS; JOB RESOURCES; MULTILEVEL; PSYCHOSOCIAL SAFETY CLIMATE; WORK STRESS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION; POLICE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84856082834     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.09.042     Document Type: Article

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