Background: The use of psychology in the workplace and accurate scientific findings in this field, in addition to reducing work-related diseases, can promote the performance of employees. Nursing is a stressful job and can be the cause of physical and mental disorders. This study investigates the relationship of personality traits and demographic factors with occupational stress. Materials a...

background: automobile manufacturing industries are considered among the main sites where accidents are likely to happen. from a cognitive point of view, stress can cause problems such as poor concentration, absent-mindedness, and hesitancy while making decisions. this study examines the relationship between job stress and occupational accidents in an automobile manufacturing company. methods: ...

BACKGROUND Safety climate and occupational stress are related with occupational accident. The present study tried to identify the differences in safety climate and occupational stress according to occupational accidents experience and employment type (e.g., direct workers and subcontract workers). METHODS In this study, we conducted a survey using safety climate scale and Korean Occupational ...

This study investigated the relationship between occupational stress and psychological well-being of teachers and the moderator effects of EI, selfefficiency, coping strategies, negative affectivity social support on the relationship. Measures of occupational stress, trait EI, self-efficiency, coping strategies negative affectivity and social support were administered on 420 secondary school te...

background : occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. recently, staff network of different government universities of thailand have called higher education commission, and ministry of education, thailand to resolve the issue of gov-ernment education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor...

OBJECTIVES Of all work stressors, occupational stress is the leading cause of many disorders among workers. Drivers are classified as a high risk group for work related stress. This study set out to determine the relationship between risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and occupational stress among drivers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two hundred and twenty two Ilam's intercity drivers were sele...

BACKGROUND Physical and mental health of workers is threatened due to various events and chronic occupational stress. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and gastric disease in male workers of the shipbuilding industry. METHODS Occupational stress measured among a total of 498 workers of a shipbuilding firm who visited the hospital for health e...

original article   thermal stress is a well-recognized health hazard in the workplace. in addition to the health deficits, working in the heat can affect significantly on the productivity of some industries located in rough environments. the current indices used to evaluate the environment are either flawed or difficult to implement. the focus of this review is upon heat stress indices used in ...

conclusions the results of the study provided valuable guidelines for the researchers and managers trying to increase organizational commitment. findings indicated that even with the pressures and challenges in the midwifery profession, midwives can still be committed and engaged by enhancing their job satisfaction and decreasing occupational stress. background stress and job dissatisfaction ha...