Many studies on the impact of psychosocial working conditions on health prove that psychosocial stress at work is an important risk factor endangering workers' health. Thus it should be constantly monitored like other work hazards. The paper presents a newly developed instrument for stress monitoring called the Psychosocial Working Conditions Questionnaire (PWC). Its structure is based on Rober...

the goal of this study was to assess the result of solution- based group counseling in reducing job stress in the female employees of the educational foundation  of ghalamchi in 2009.the target group included the entire female employees of that foundation. a group of 24 women were selected  and  randomly grouped as the control and experimental groups. the data was collected using pillip l-rice`...

conclusions the analysis of the reliability and validity of the persian version of the hse questionnaire showed that it is a useful and reliable measure to analyze work-related stress. background job stress has recently been regarded as a risk factor for some diseases. objectives in this study, we standardized the persian version of the hse management standards indicator tool and studied the ps...

Using a job stress questionnaire a negative correlation was found between job stress and physical fitness and a positive one with Type A behaviour. No correlation was found between job stress and obesity, nutritional patterns or physical activity. Subjects with angina had higher scores on the job stress questionnaire than normal controls. The job stress score was not predictive of future corona...

conclusions according to the results of this study, we can conclude that our suggested model is suited to explaining the pathways of stress among iranian male staff. results a total of 575 individuals (all male) were recruited for the study. their mean (±sd) age was 33.49 (±8.9) and their mean job experience was 12.79 (±8.98) years. the pathway of job stress among iranian male staff showed an a...

background: occupational stress takes place in relationship between person and environment. it’s created by three major factors including characteristics personal, working conditions, relationships between them. stress is caused by psychological imbalances and has different outcomes on health. this study examined the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction in health care staff. met...

BACKGROUND Job stress and job satisfaction are important factors affecting workforce productivity. This study was carried out to investigate the job stress, job satisfaction, and workforce productivity levels, to examine the effects of job stress and job satisfaction on workforce productivity, and to identify factors associated with productivity decrement among employees of an Iranian petrochem...