Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign

Karasek, Robert

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“…These measures were adapted from Karasek (1979), and use a four-point Likert response format with greater scores representing greater amounts of a given construct. Work overload, role conflict, and repetitive tasks were measured using single items.…”

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“…These studies often draw on Karasek's (1979) theoretical framework regarding the linkages between health and psychosocial job stressors, such as job demands and job control (Pelfrene, Vlerick, Kittle, Mak, Kornitzer, & De Backer, 2002),. Job demands include work overload as well as conflicting roles and tasks, while job control focuses on the degree of decision-making authority workers have over how they perform their jobs.…”

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Job stress and poor sleep quality: Data from an American sample of full-time workers

Knudsen

Ducharme

Roman

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Given the associations between poor quality sleep and health, it is important to consider whether job stressors are related to sleep-related outcomes. Studies from Europe and Japan suggest that these stressors negatively impact sleep, but there are few studies of job stressors and sleep quality that draw upon large representative samples of workers in the USA. Using data collected via telephone interviews from a nationally representative random sample of 1,715 American full-time employees, this research considers three dependent variables of past-month poor sleep quality: number of days the respondent had difficulty initiating sleep, number of days of difficulty maintaining sleep, and number of days of non-restorative sleep. Negative binomial regression was used to estimate a count data model of the associations between the frequency of these three types of poor sleep quality and the job stressors of work overload, role conflict, autonomy, and repetitive tasks, while controlling for socio-demographic characteristics. The average American worker reported 5.3 days of difficulty falling asleep, 6.6 days of trouble staying asleep, and 5.0 days of trouble waking up for work in the past month. Across the three types of poor sleep quality, work overload was positively associated with the frequency of poor sleep quality. Role conflict was positively associated with difficulty initiating sleep and non-restorative sleep. Repetitive tasks were associated with more days of difficulty initiating sleep and maintaining sleep. Job autonomy was negatively associated with nonrestorative sleep. Given that sleep quality is associated with other health outcomes, future research should continue to explore the associations between job-related stressors, sleep quality, and workers' health status.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Job stress and poor sleep quality: Data from an American sample of full-time workers

Knudsen

Ducharme

Roman

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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134

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“…The type of occupational stress having a negative impact on workers' health is defined as job strain [36][37][38]. Job strain occurs when job demands are high, and job decision latitude is low.…”

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A theoretical and empirical investigation of nutritional label use

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Due in part to increasing diet-related health problems caused, among others, by obesity, nutritional labelling has been considered important, mainly because it can provide consumers with information that can be used to make informed and healthier food choices. Several studies have focused on the empirical perspective of nutritional label use. None of these studies, however, have focused on developing a theoretical economic model that would adequately describe nutritional label use based on a utility theoretic framework. We attempt to fill this void by developing a simple theoretical model of nutritional label use, incorporating the time a consumer spends reading labels as part of the food choice process. The demand equations of the model are then empirically tested. Results suggest the significant role of several variables that flow directly from the model which, to our knowledge, have not been used in any previous empirical work.

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“…However, to our knowledge, only two studies have employed the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) in this context. The JCQ is based on the demandcontrol (or job strain) model developed by Karasek (1979). Stattin and Järvholm (2005) followed a large cohort of Swedish construction workers for a decade.…”

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Can high psychological job demands, low decision latitude, and high job strain predict disability pensions? A 12-year follow-up of middle-aged Swedish workers

Canivet

Choi

Karasek

et al. 2012

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign

Cited by 9,367 publications

References 24 publications

Job stress and poor sleep quality: Data from an American sample of full-time workers

Job stress and poor sleep quality: Data from an American sample of full-time workers

A theoretical and empirical investigation of nutritional label use

Can high psychological job demands, low decision latitude, and high job strain predict disability pensions? A 12-year follow-up of middle-aged Swedish workers

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