BACKGROUND Workplace health promotion (WHP) has been proposed as a preventive intervention for job stress, possibly operating by promoting positive organizational culture or via programs promoting healthy lifestyles. The aim of this study was to investigate whether job stress changed over time in association with the availability of, and/or participation in a comprehensive WHP program (Healthy@...

psychological disorders are universally common problems. social support contributes much to the health of individuals. focusing upon social support and upon vicissitudes of life can help prevent the depression-induced disorders. the present paper investigated the relationship between perceived social support, depression and perceived stress in university students.the descriptive-analytical stud...

PURPOSE This study examined the factors that predict employees' perceptions of procedural justice in university settings. The paper also reviews the ethical aspects of justice and psychological contracts within employment relationships. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The study examined the predictors of perceived procedural justice in a two-wave longitudinal sample of 945 employees from 13 unive...

Working with livestock is a hazardous activity, and animals have been found to be the most frequent injury source on dairy farms. Understanding the risk factors for injury and the causal relationships related to injuries and animal handling is important for developing prevention strategies and effective safety interventions. This study examined stress and handler attitude as possible risk facto...

A survey was performed in 2008 on a representative stratified sample of 245 railroad employees in Slovenia (168 blue-collar and 77 white-collar workers) with the aim of exploring different dimensions of workers’ lifestyle health. For this purpose a special questionnaire was developed. The intensity of perceived job stress was measured with one general index based on a 4-point ordinal scale. The...

Psychosocial characteristics have been linked to coronary heart disease. In the Belgian Job Stress Project (1994-1999), the authors examined the independent role of perceived job stress on the short-term incidence of clinical manifest coronary events in a large occupational cohort. A total of 14,337 middle-aged men completed the Job Content Questionnaire to determine the dimensions of the exten...

Background Evidence is lacking regarding the potential role of chronic psychological stress on cancer incidence. The workplace is reported to be the main source of stress among Canadian men. We examined the association between perceived lifetime workplace stress and prostate cancer (PCa) risk in a large case-control study. Methods Cases were 1,933 men, aged ≤ 75 years, newly diagnosed with PC...

results the overall perceived stress mean was 32.02 (sd = 5.08). eighty-three percent of the medical students perceived stress. students in clinical phase perceived more stress than basic sciences ones [or 2.25, 95% ci 1.809 - 4.032]. logistic regression analysis showed demographic (including gender and residential status), psychosocial and academic factors and the phase of study as sources of ...

conclusions the present study showed that heat stress had a negative effect on job satisfaction; also there were no significant effects on job stress and job performance. results the results showed that job satisfaction had a negative correlation with wbgt index (r = -0.42, p < 0.001) and hssi (r = -0.49, p < 0.001). also, there was no statistical correlation among occupational stress and job p...