Cohort Profile: The Well-being in HospitAL Employees (WHALE) study

Cohort profile: Steps to the healthy development and well-being of children (the STEPS Study).

The STEPS Study aims to search for the precursors and causes of problems in child health and well-being by using a multidisciplinary approach. The cohort consists of all mothers (Finnish or Swedish speaking) who had live deliveries in the Hospital District of Southwest Finland from January 2008 to April 2010 and their children (n=9811 mothers, n=9936 children). Of these, 1797 mothers and their ...

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...

Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Well-being? Forthcoming in Industrial Relations Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Well-being?

How do workers make wage comparisons? Both an experimental study and an analysis of 16,000 British employees are reported. Satisfaction and well-being levels are shown to depend on more than simple relative pay. They depend upon the ordinal rank of an individual’s wage within a comparison group. ‘Rank’ itself thus seems to matter to human beings. Moreover, consistent with psychological theory, ...

The Relationship Between Organizational Climate and Psychological Well-Being of Hospital Employees

Organizational climate is an important work environment factor which can affect different aspects of work. This study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between organizational climate and personnel’s psychological well-being. In an analytical and cross-sectional study we used Sussman and Deep’s organizational climate questionnaire and CL-90R psychological well-being questionnaire in 3 educa...

Cohort profile: The DASH (Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health) Study, an ethnically diverse cohort.