Applying strategies of selection, optimization, and compensation to maintain work ability - A psychosocial: Resource complementing the job demand-control model?: Results from the representative lida cohort study on work, age, and health in Germany

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 552-561

  Riedel, Natalie ^a   Müller, Andreas ^a   Ebener, Melanie ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; GERMAN COPENHAGEN PSYCHOSOCIAL QUESTIONNAIRE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JOB CONTROL; JOB DEMAND; MENTAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENESCENCE; SKILL; WORK; WORK ABILITY INDEX; WORK CAPACITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL DELEGATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAFF DEVELOPMENT; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84942577969     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000402     Document Type: Article

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