BACKGROUND People spend a considerable amount of time at work over the course of their lives, which makes the workplace important to health and aging. However, little is known about the potential long-term effects of work-related stress on late-life health. This study aims to examine work-related stress in late midlife and educational attainment in relation to serious health problems in old age...

Drawing on similarity-attraction theory, we propose that relationship-building behaviors from newcomers are more positively related to information-sharing mentors when they perceive a deep similarity with the newcomers, and mentors' information sharing is likely be well received by their mentors. We also hypothesize newcomers' perceived mentor associated newcomer adjustment (i.e., role clarity ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between psychosocial and other working conditions and body-mass index (BMI) in a working population. This study contributes to the approximately dozen investigations of job stress, which have demonstrated mixed positive and negative results in relation to obesity, overweight and BMI. METHODS A cross-sectional population-based sur...

Abstract Job crafting is characterized by worker’s proactive behavior aiming to give meaning and significance their work relations, allowing the individual assume a leading role acting as an agent of change. The study aimed gather evidence validity for Crafting Hierarchical Scale in Brazil. Study sample consisted 675 Brazilian workers both genders, aged between 18 82 years. Confirmatory Factor ...

The current research tested a theoretical model of employee adjustment during organizational change based on Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) cognitivephenomenological framework. The model hypothesized that psychological climate variables would act as coping resources and predict improved adjustment during change. Two variations of this model were tested using survey data from two different organiz...

The Job Creation Law, enacted in Indonesia November 2020, has provided a new understanding of the sectors, such as investment and business activities, employment, ease conducting business, that are directly related to various aspects regulatory adjustment. Research innovation adjustments have received growing attention recent years. This article thus attempts reveal amendments from strategic po...

OBJECTIVES Adverse work-related exposures have been linked with decreased physical and mental functioning in later life, however, whether childhood factors explain the associations between work exposures and functioning is unknown. Our aim was to investigate if job demand and control in mid-life were related to self-reported physical and mental functioning in early old age and whether childhood...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown an association between job insecurity and morbidity as well as mortality, however until now, knowledge about a potential association between job insecurity and overweight or obesity has been lacking. METHODS In order to identify a possible association between job insecurity and overweight or obesity, we analysed data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GS...

AIMS To examine the impact of job strain (that is, high psychological job demands and low job control) on return to work and work role functioning at two months, six months, or both, following carpal tunnel release surgery. METHODS A community based cohort of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients from physician practices was recruited between April 1997 and October 1998 throughout Maine (USA)...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.10.002 q This manuscript was processed by Area Editor T.C ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5131472; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K.-T. Fan (B.M.T. Lin). Traditional research on machine scheduling focuses on job allocation and sequencing to optimize certain objective functions that are defin...