Little is known about the job strain of staff working in disability institutions. This study investigated the staff's job strain profile and its determinants which included the worker characteristics and the psychosocial working environments in Taiwan. A cross-sectional study survey was carried out among 1243 workers by means of a self-answered questionnaire. The outcome variable (high-strain j...

BACKGROUND The long-term effects of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) on job strain have not been assessed in a large prospective population-based cohort study. AIMS To examine the relationship between the LTPA and the prevalence of job strain. METHODS The participants were 861 full-time employees (406 men and 455 women), aged 24-39 years in 2001, from the ongoing Cardiovascular Risk in...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to test the validity of the IPD-Work Consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and the Demand-Control Questionnaire (DCQ). MATERIAL AND METHODS A random population sample (N = 682) of all middle-aged Malmö males and females was given a questionnaire with the 14-item JCQ and 11-item DCQ for the job contr...

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 ...

OBJECTIVES Limited evidence is available regarding the association between prenatal job strain and infant neurodevelopment. Most studies used stress indicators other than job strain to explain the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and child development. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between maternal job strain during pregnancy and neurodevelopment in...

Early detection and tailored treatment of job strain is important because it negatively affects the health condition of employees, the performance of organizations, and the overall costs of the health care system likewise. Although there exist several self-report instruments for measuring job strain, one major limitation is the low frequency of measurements and, related to it, high-effort and h...

This study evaluated the associations between job strain and arginase I in 378 healthy Japanese factory workers by a cross-sectional study measuring nitric oxide (NO)-related parameters (arginase I, L-arginine, exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), and NOx), clinical parameters, and job strain using a Japanese version of the Job Content Questionnaire by Karasek. Arginase I and FEV1% were negatively corr...

The Relationship of Occupational Stress, Psychological Strain, Satisfaction with Job. Commitment to the Profession, Age, and Resilience to the.administered questionnaire was used to collect data on psychological strain. Psychological strain factory workers social relationship job satisfaction work.To determine the prevalence of acute strain and of repeated episodes of strain over 6and 12-month....

Job strain has become a major concern because of its potential impacts on worker well-being and performance. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence of, and examine factors associated with, job strain among workers in a rubber-glove factory, in a central province of Thailand. A total of 200 workers aged 18–55 yr, who had worked at the factory for at least 6 months, completed t...