Psychosocial work dimensions, personality, and body mass index: Sex differences
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Psychosocial work dimensions, personality, and body mass index: sex differences.
OBJECTIVES The association between psychosocial work dimensions (i.e. demand and control) and obesity has been found to be inconclusive, indicating that individual differences factors might also contribute to explain the variability in BMI. MATERIALS AND METHODS The interaction between work dimensions and personality variables in a group of male and female workers (N = 506), and its associati...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1896-494X
DOI: 10.2478/s13382-013-0121-3