To assess the associations between job stress and somatic symptoms and to investigate the effect of individual coping on these associations. In July 2006, a cross-sectional study was conducted during a periodic health check-up of 185 Japanese male office workers (21-66 yr old) at a Japanese company. Job stress was measured by job demand, control, and strain (=job demand/control) based on the Jo...

In the era of gender equality, females’ work competency is praised and valued in the modern workplace, and physical gender becomes insignificant. However, does the difference of gender roles influence workers’ performance in the work environment? It is an important question. Hence, this study probed into relationship between gender roles, and job stress, and treats the Adversity Quotient as mod...

Several studies on job stress have been conducted among nurses, teachers, clerks, lecturers, laboratory technicians, petroleum and automotive workers and the calculated prevalences ranged from 20-35%; associated factors identified include high job demand, low job control and poor social support. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of stress ...

Currently Bankers are under a great transaction of stress and due to many backgrounds of stress such as Excess, Role doubt, Role conflict, Concern for people, Contribution, Lack of feedback, possession up with rapid technologicalchange. Being in an inventive role, Career development, Organizational structure and climate, and recent episodic events. The thing which find out is stress. This study...

background and objectives: studies of the relationship between personal qualities and job consequences usually find poor and inconsistent correlations. it is suggested that the reason may lie in ignorance of some modifying factors mediating such relationship. the perceived control has attracted much attention as a candidate factor. this study aimed to examine the mediating role of the perceived...

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 ...