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Although many previous studies have examined factors associated with depression, there has been a lack of examining the role external shame and emotion regulation. Therefore, present study these potential risk alongside other in group that may be more prone to depression (i.e., married Muslim mothers). Married mothers (n = 971) residing urban area Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) were surveyed. Using va...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The aim of this work was to introduce a new combined method of subjective and objective measures to assess psychosocial risk factors at work and improve workers' health and well-being. In the literature most of the research on work-related stress focuses on self-report measures and this work represents the first methodology capable of integrating different sources of da...

BACKGROUND South Korea has a different cause-specific structure of mortality compared with North America and northern European countries where studies on pathways to socioeconomic mortality inequalities have been performed. We examined the ability of multiple pathways to explain socioeconomic differentials in all-cause mortality in South Korea. METHODS The 1998 National Health and Nutrition S...