BACKGROUND Information on job strain exposure among Malaysian workers in multinational companies is limited. AIMS To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with high job strain among office workers of a multinational company in Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2007 among 470 eligible workers. Respondents self-administered the Job Content Questio...

INTRODUCTION A Job Exposure Matrix (JEM) for psychosocial job stressors allows assessment of these exposures at a population level. JEMs are particularly useful in situations when information on psychosocial job stressors were not collected individually and can help eliminate the biases that may be present in individual self-report accounts. This research paper describes the development of a JE...

The Relationship of Occupational Stress, Psychological Strain, Satisfaction with Job. Commitment to the Profession, Age, and Resilience to the.administered questionnaire was used to collect data on psychological strain. Psychological strain factory workers social relationship job satisfaction work.To determine the prevalence of acute strain and of repeated episodes of strain over 6and 12-month....

S ince at least the late 1970s, ‘‘flexible production’’ has commonly been considered as a positive and necessary innovation to ensure sustainable economic growth. 2 The need to be ‘‘flexible’’ has been proposed for workplace technical systems, schedules and salaries, and ‘‘flexibility’’ has even been recognised as a positive feature of a worker’s personality. Increasing labour flexibility means...

Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011–2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding question, adopts Deb Trivedi’s (Econometrics Journal, 9, 307–331, 2006) econometric approach. The results show that eff...