Pablo Carballeira,∗ Julián Cabrera,∗ Antonio Ortega,† Fernando Jaureguizar,∗ and Narciso Garcı́a∗ ∗ Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain E-mail: {pcl, jcq, fjn, ngs}@gti.ssr.upm.es † Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA, E-mail...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of job dissatisfaction, and to ascertain the association between job strain and job dissatisfaction and socio-demographic and occupational factors among laboratory staff of universiti putra malaysia (upm). methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 450 research laboratory staff in 10 faculties and 8 institutes of...

OBJECTIVES Workers in the financial services sector are exposed to great stress at work. This study investigates whether exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions is independently associated with poor health-related physical and mental quality of life among financial services workers. METHODS We studied a nationwide representative sample of 2,054 workers of a large Brazilian state bank...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the job content questionnaire (TJCQ) both 22-item and 45-item versions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study encompassed 10,450 employees in Songkhla province, Thailand. A 45-item job content questionnaire (JCQ) was translated and back translated complying with the JCQ usage policy. TJCQ covers seven scales as follows: psyc...

To examine if sense of coherence (SOC) can reduce the adverse effects of job stress on mental health status, self-administered questionnaires were distributed among 740 workers in a manufacturing industry. The questionnaire contained SOC, Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Complete answers were recovered from 466 workers (62.8%), consisting of 387 males ...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en realizar la adaptación cultural y el estudio psicométrico versión española del Job Contents Questionnaire trabajadores Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires Gran Aires. La muestra se conformó 331 (70% es género femenino 30% masculino, media edad 33,15, DS=11,84). Primero realizó una mediante evaluación jueces expertos prueba piloto. adaptada 29 ítems. Para evaluar...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the rate of burnout and the contributing factors behind it among physicians in Shanghai. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 457 physicians from 21 hospitals in Shanghai completed self-reported questionnaires in June 2008. The Chinese version of the job content questionnaire (C-JCQ) and the Chinese version of the effort-reward im...

BACKGROUND Job stressors may reduce the likelihood of quitting smoking. AIMS To assess the association between job strain, smoking behaviour and smoking cessation among Malaysian male employees involved in a smoking cessation programme. METHODS The study was conducted among employees in two major public universities in Malaysia. All staff from both universities received an invitation to par...

This study assessed the levels and association of occupational stress and depression rate among physicians, and to compare physicians' occupational stress with that of Taiwanese employees in other occupations. The subjects were physicians employed at 14 participating regional hospitals in the Around Taiwan Health Care Alliance. Self-administered questionnaires capturing data on demographics, oc...

Psychosocial risk factors have been considered as characteristics of the work environment rather than an individual issue, but their presence in the workplace is usually measured by self-reported questionnaires, based on worker attitudes. The objective of the study was to compare a self-reported measure of psychological job demands in a bus driver sample with selected indicators of bus company ...