Working in a correctional institute is often a demanding and stressful job. This study examined the impact of job characteristics and job involvement on correctional staff job stress. Specifically, the effects of supervision, perceived dangerousness of the job, job variety, feedback, role stress, and job involvement were studied, while controlling for the effects of the personal characteristics...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of job demand, job control and job strain on total mortality among white-collar and blue-collar employees working in the public sector. DESIGN 28-year prospective population-based follow-up. SETTING Several municipals in Finland. PARTICIPANTS 5731 public sector employees from the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees Study aged 44-58 years ...

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED JOB STRESS, JOB SATISFACTION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES? By Barbara L . Hooper House's Stress Paradigm provided the theoretical framework for this study which examined the relationship between job satisfaction and job stress, and the correlation of job stress with the experience of psychological symptoms in a sample of 32 criti...