A study of job stress among women and men in the Federal Republic of Germany

Braun, Susan; Hollander, Roberta B.

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“…However, the study failed to find any relationships between the job characteristics and CHD risk or smoking behavior. Braun and Hollander (1987) similarly found no association between CHD risk, high job demands and low discretion.…”

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A refutation of Karasek's demand – discretion model of occupational stress with a range of dependent measures

1993

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Karasek's (1979) demand–discretion model of occupational stress has been highly influential but has been criticized as confounding social class variables (Payne and Fletcher, 1983), ignoring the curvilinearity of relationships (Warr, 1991), and because it has inconsistently predicted heart disease (Ganster and Fusilier, 1989). The present study examines the ability of the model to predict raised blood pressure (a risk factor in the development of CHD), anxiety, depression, job and life satisfaction, in a large heterogeneous sample of over 3000 people. It examines the predictability of the model for men and women, taking occupational classification (manual and non‐manual workers) into account, to allow some control over social class confounding. It also examines nonlinear relationships in the data. The study showed that demands and discretion do separately predict psychological strain, job and life satisfaction, though they account for a very small percentage of the variance. There was no evidence of interactive effects which are central to the model. Where the model was able to predict blood pressure, relationships were consistently in the opposite direction to that hypothesized. There was also little evidence of curvilinear relationships. Interpersonal support was found to add significantly to the predictability of the dependent variables. The findings cast doubt on Karasek's model and suggest that emphasis should be shifted to those models which are more encompassing of support factors.

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A refutation of Karasek's demand – discretion model of occupational stress with a range of dependent measures

1993

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“…Assigning levels of job demands and job decision latitude on the basis of an individual's occupational classification, these studies provided evidence to suggest that the combination of high work stress and low work control does lead to higher rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is important to note, however, that several recent studies have been less successful in detecting Work Stress × Work Control interactions in the prediction of a number of precursors to coronary heart disease, such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure (Braun & Hollander, 1987; Fletcher & Jones, 1993; Landsbergis, 1988).…”

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Responses to an in-basket activity: The role of work stress, behavioral control, and informational control.

Jimmieson

Terry²

1997

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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This study was undertaken to examine the main and interactive effects of work stress and work control on levels of adjustment. Work stress, behavioral control, and informational control were manipulated in an experimental setting in which participants (N = 192) completed an in-basket activity. Although minimal support was found for the main and interactive effects of objective work stress, behavioral control, and informational control on adjustment, analyses involving the subjective measures of these variables revealed strong support for the proposal that work stress, behavioral control, and informational control would exert main effects on adjustment. There was also evidence that subjective levels of behavioral control buffered the negative effects of subjective work stress on positive mood, subjective task performance, and task satisfaction.

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“…Research has also used the model to address other ill-health measures, such as depression, fatigue, insomnia, psychiatric illness, suicide and total mortality (e.g. Braun & Hollander, 1987;Falk, Hanson, Isacsson & Ostergren, 1992;Karasek & Theorell, 1990;Warr, 1990). These studies all highlight the negative in uence of high job strain on health and quality of life.…”

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Occupational Differences in the Work-Strain Relationship: Towards the Use of Situation-Specific Models

Sparks

Cooper

2013

From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1

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Much of the research on the work-strain relationship utilizes models which are narrowly focused on only a few job characteristics. These models are often global in their approach, failing to account for speci c situations. Addressing these two issues, the present study investigated the in uence of seven job characteristics; namely work control and six sources of work pressure, across a range of occupations, on mental and physical ill-health. Pooled within-group correlations were performed on data from 7099 employees from 13 occupations to clarify which of the seven job characteristics were signi cantly associated with both mental and physical ill-health. Results indicated all seven variables were signicantly important. Mean score and correlational analyses for each occupation revealed many diVerences between the groups, with some job characteristics signi cantly associated with mental and physical ill-health in one occupation but not in another. It was concluded that to understand fully the work-strain relationship, research should incorporate a greater range of variables which are speci c to a particular workplace. Using more job-speci c models, encompassing a range of identi ed job and organizational stressors would also be more eVective, practically, for interventions in the workplace to improve worker health and well-being.

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A study of job stress among women and men in the Federal Republic of Germany

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A refutation of Karasek's demand – discretion model of occupational stress with a range of dependent measures

A refutation of Karasek's demand – discretion model of occupational stress with a range of dependent measures

Responses to an in-basket activity: The role of work stress, behavioral control, and informational control.

Occupational Differences in the Work-Strain Relationship: Towards the Use of Situation-Specific Models

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