Psychosocial risk factors have been considered as characteristics of the work environment rather than an individual issue, but their presence in the workplace is usually measured by self-reported questionnaires, based on worker attitudes. The objective of the study was to compare a self-reported measure of psychological job demands in a bus driver sample with selected indicators of bus company ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the rate of burnout and the contributing factors behind it among physicians in Shanghai. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 457 physicians from 21 hospitals in Shanghai completed self-reported questionnaires in June 2008. The Chinese version of the job content questionnaire (C-JCQ) and the Chinese version of the effort-reward im...

OBJECTIVES Limited evidence is available regarding the association between prenatal job strain and infant neurodevelopment. Most studies used stress indicators other than job strain to explain the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and child development. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between maternal job strain during pregnancy and neurodevelopment in...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate musculoskeletal and psychosocial perception and compare these conditions regarding the type of job (white or blue-collar) and the type of management model (private or public). METHODS Forty-seven public white-collar (PuWC), 84 private white-collar (PrWC) and 83 blue-collar workers (PrBC) were evaluated. Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and Utrec...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en realizar la adaptación cultural y el estudio psicométrico versión española del Job Contents Questionnaire trabajadores Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires Gran Aires. La muestra se conformó 331 (70% es género femenino 30% masculino, media edad 33,15, DS=11,84). Primero realizó una mediante evaluación jueces expertos prueba piloto. adaptada 29 ítems. Para evaluar...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate Job Content Questionnaire(JCQ) performance using the latent class model. METHODS We analysed cross-sectional studies conducted in Brazil and examined three occupational categories: petroleum industry workers (n=489), teachers (n=4392) and primary healthcare workers (3078)and 1552 urban workers from a representative sample of the city of Feira de Santana in Bahia, Brazil....

Background and Objectives:Nurses in intensive care (ICU) wards often experience a wide range of stressful situations. Excessive work stress influences nurses’ physical and mental health and declines their life quality and the ability to work. High psychological stress can cause job dissatisfaction and job strain. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of psychological...

background: evidence shows that job stress potentially has adverse effect on individuals’ health and organizational productivity. it has, therefore, become an important issue in the occupational health context. the aims of this study were to investigate job stress dimensions among nurses of shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) hospitals and comparing the results with the findings of the...

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between psychosocial job stress (by the Job Control-Demand (JCD) model and Effort-Reward imbalance (ERI) model) and musculoskeletal (MS) symptoms among workers in China. Overall, 3,632 male and 1,706 female workers from 13 factories/companies participated in this study. Perceived job stress was evaluated by the Chinese version of the Job ...

OBJECTIVES Workers in the financial services sector are exposed to great stress at work. This study investigates whether exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions is independently associated with poor health-related physical and mental quality of life among financial services workers. METHODS We studied a nationwide representative sample of 2,054 workers of a large Brazilian state bank...