Individual and work-unit measures of psychological demands and decision latitude and the use of antihypertensive medication

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-319
Author(s):  
S. Daugaard ◽  
J. H. Andersen ◽  
M. B. Grynderup ◽  
Z. A. Stokholm ◽  
R. Rugulies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antihypertensive Medication ◽  
Work Unit ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Psychological Demands

scholarly journals A two-year follow-up study of risk of depression according to work-unit measures of psychological demands and decision latitude

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matias Brødsgaard Grynderup ◽  
Ole Mors ◽  
Åse Marie Hansen ◽  
Johan Hviid Andersen ◽  
Jens Peter Bonde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Unit ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Psychological Demands

Validation of the Karasek-Job Content Questionnaire to Measure Job Strain in Vietnam

2013 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Giang Hoang ◽  
Marc Corbière ◽  
Alessia Negrini ◽  
Minh Khuê Pham ◽  
Daniel Reinharz
Keyword(s):  
Health Personnel ◽  
Job Strain ◽  
Work Absence ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Job Content Questionnaire ◽  
Back Translation ◽  
Job Content ◽  
Support At Work ◽  
Skill Discretion ◽  
Psychological Demands

The objective of this study was to validate the Karasek-Job Content Questionnaire in Vietnamese. A translation/back-translation of the questionnaire was performed prior to its administration to 344 health personnel in Vietnam. Several psychometric properties of the Vietnamese version of the Karasek-Job Content Questionnaire were assessed. A valid Vietnamese version of the Karasek-Job Content Questionnaire was produced, composed of five subscales based on the original theoretical model: Psychological demands, Social support at work, Decision latitude-Autonomy, Decision latitude—Authority, and Skill discretion. Internal consistency and reliability coefficients for each subscale of the questionnaire were satisfactory. The correlations with depression and work absence indicators were weak but statistically significant, as expected. The Vietnamese version of the Karasek-Job Content Questionnaire will help Vietnamese researchers and clinicians appropriately evaluate and document the job strain of workers in Vietnamese workplaces.

scholarly journals Marginalised Medical Officers; Do We Care?

2019 ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zulfahmi Mohd Kamaruzaman ◽  
Mohd Ismail Ibrahim ◽  
Anees Abdul Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Job Strain ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Job Content Questionnaire ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Job Content ◽  
Psychological Demands

Introduction: Medical officers are responsible to give health services to population. Ironically, they also suffer from unhealthy consequences in the mould of job strain.Objective: Thus, the main aim of this study is to determine the job strain among medical officers in health clinics (HCs), Kelantan and its associated factors.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of the prevalence and risk factors of job strain among medical officers in HCs. The study was conducted between January and April 2019 using simple random sampling involving a total number of 232 medical officers. The selected medical officers were given the Malay version of validated Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) in order to investigate job strain. There were three components investigated and two of them; decision latitude and psychological demands were applied to define job strain. The median score was utilized as the cut-off point to separate high and low result of the data. High psychological demand with concurrent low decision latitude resulted in high job strain. The last component investigated was social support (co-worker and supervisor support). The data were presented descriptively and logistic regression was used to find the association for the job strain.Results: The prevalence of high job strain among medical officers serving in HCs, Kelantan was 22.4 percent. Supervisor support was significantly associated with job strain.Conclusion: A high proportion of medical officers in HCs suffered high job strain. Supervisor support proved to be substantial in relieving job strain.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Supplementary Issue: 2019 Page: 50

scholarly journals Sources and Reactions to Stress in Brazilian Lawyers

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (57) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Fátima Antunes Alves Costa ◽  
Maria Cristina Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Job Content Questionnaire ◽  
Brazilian Version ◽  
Psychosomatic Problems ◽  
Work Social Support ◽  
Job Content ◽  
Psychological Demands

Job stress can negatively affect the health of employees. As such, the investigation of its characteristics in different professional categories is relevant. The aim in this study was to analyze the predictive power of seven stressors (decision latitude, psychological demands at work, physical demands at work, social support from colleagues, ergonomic stressors, relationships with clients, job insecurity) for job dissatisfaction, depression and psychosomatic problems in a sample of 702 Brazilian lawyers. The data were collected using a Brazilian version of the Job Content Questionnaire(JCQ). The results showed that decision latitude and social support were the main negative predictors of stress, while psychological demands and job insecurity were its main positive predictors. These results are discussed in the light of the demand-support-control model, which was used as a framework for the research.

Control in Flexible Working Arrangements

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Gerdenitsch ◽  
Bettina Kubicek ◽  
Christian Korunka
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Similar Extent ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Supported by media technologies, today’s employees can increasingly decide when and where to work. The present study examines positive and negative aspects of this temporal and spatial flexibility, and the perceptions of control in these situations based on propositions of self-determination theory. Using an exploratory approach we conducted semi-structured interviews with 45 working digital natives. Participants described positive and negative situations separately for temporal and spatial flexibility, and rated the extent to which they felt autonomous and externally controlled. Situations appraised positively were best described by decision latitude, while negatively evaluated ones were best described by work–nonwork conflict. Positive situations were perceived as autonomous rather than externally controlled; negative situations were rated as autonomously and externally controlled to a similar extent.

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