This study used objective measures of job characteristics appended to the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), self-reported job characteristics, and an individual resource characteristic (orientation toward personal growth) to test a theory of work-family facilitation. Results indicated that resource-rich jobs enable work-to-family facilitation. A higher level o...

This paper investigates a novel flexible job-shop scheduling problem, where the machines have batch-processing capacity, but incompatible jobs cannot be processed in batch (FJSPBI) simultaneously. problem has wide applications discrete manufacturing, especially chemical and steel casting industries. For first time, this study, 3-indexed mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model is proposed,...

Suicide is the ultimate outcome of poor psychological well-being; however, there is a paucity of research examining the link between occupation and suicide, despite early academic interest and the known importance of work to our everyday lives. We propose that this body of research was abandoned prematurely, and we provide a reanalysis by integrating the Job Characteristics Model and the Conser...

OBJECTIVE In a Japanese metropolis, we examined the effects of work-related factors and work-family conflict on depressive symptoms among working women living with young children. METHODS Data was derived from women (n=501) who lived with at least one preschool child and worked for 20 hours or more per week. As work-related factors, we chose job pressure, skill underutilization, dissatisfacti...

BACKGROUND The objective of the study was to the determine of neuroticism, requirements of the labor market and work-family conflict while exploring consequences of various aspects of job stress in occupationally active parents. MATERIAL AND METHODS The investigations covered 159 females and 154 males from families where both parents are occupationally active and bring up at least one child a...

OBJECTIVE To identify sources of job stress associated with high levels of job dissatisfaction and negative mental wellbeing among general practitioners in England. DESIGN Multivariate analysis of large database of general practitioners compiled from results of confidential questionnaire survey. Data obtained on independent variables of job stress, demographic factors, and personality. Depend...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of multiple types of work-family spillover (work-to-family negative spillover, WFNS; family-to-work negative spillover, FWNS; and work-family positive spillover, WFPS) on psychological distress among Japanese dual-earner couples with preschool children. METHODS 2,346 parents completed questionnaires measuring work-family spillover, work- and family-specific v...