Job characteristics and mental health for older workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 394-400

  Mc Carthy, V J C ^a   Cronly, J ^a   Perry, I J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Job characteristics; Mental health; Older workers; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORK;

AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; WORK;

EID: 85029696987     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqx066     Document Type: Article

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