OBJECTIVES This study aims to test the validity of the IPD-Work Consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and the Demand-Control Questionnaire (DCQ). MATERIAL AND METHODS A random population sample (N = 682) of all middle-aged Malmö males and females was given a questionnaire with the 14-item JCQ and 11-item DCQ for the job contr...

IT professionals’ level of organizational commitment and job satisfaction is important in minimizing turnover, improving job performance, minimizing absenteeism, and increasing the level of job involvement. This study explores various nature of work characteristics as a contributing factor to IT professionals’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Nature of work for the IT context of ...

BACKGROUND Workplace stress is known to be related with many behavioral and disease outcomes. However, little is known about its prospective relationship with measures of cognitive decline. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of job strain, psychological demands and job control on cognitive decline. METHODS Participants from Framingham Offspring cohort (n=1429), were assessed on job st...

This study moves from "work-family" to a multi-dimensional "life-course fit" construct (employees' cognitive assessments of resources, resource deficits, and resource demands), using a combined work-family, demands-control and ecology of the life course framing. It examined (1) impacts of job and home ecological systems on fit dimensions, and (2) whether control over work time predicted and med...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The main purpose of this study was to test whether the impact of job control on stroke mortality is independent of socioeconomic factors. METHODS This was a register-based cohort study of nearly 3.5 million working people (25 to 64 years of age in the 1990 Swedish Census) with a 5-year follow-up for stroke mortality. Job control was aggregated to the data from a seconda...

The French Learners Audio Corpus of German Speech (FLACGS) was created to compare German speech production of German native speakers (GG) and French learners of German (FG) across three speech production tasks of increasing production complexity: repetition, reading and picture description. 40 speakers, 20 GG and 20 FG performed each of the three tasks, which in total leads to approximately 7h ...

The FG-NET aging database was released in 2004 in an attempt to support research activities related to facial aging. Since then a number of researchers used the database for carrying out research in various disciplines related to facial aging. Based on the analysis of published work where the FG-NET aging database was used, conclusions related to the type of research carried out in relation to ...

In this paper, we apply the concept of an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set to ideals and closed ideals in BG-algebras. The notion of an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy closed ideal of a BG-algebra is introduced, and some related properties are investigated. Also, the product of interval-valued inntuitionistic fuzzy BG-algebra is investgated.