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Measuring Job Stressors and Studying the Health Impact of the Work Environment: An Epidemiologic Commentary

Measuring Job Stressors and Studying the Health Impact of the Work Environment: An Epidemiologic... This article provides a commentary on 5 articles in thespecial section that marshal a substantial amount of informationabout 4 instruments for measuring work stress. The perspective isthat of psychosocial epidemiology and highlights the differencesbetween the environmental and the psychological traditions ofstudying stress and health. Several issues are addressed: (a)placing the 4 measures in a broader taxonomy of dimensions of workenvironment and evaluating the mea sures in that context, (b)discussing alternative strategies for measuring job strains, (c)analyzing some of the issues in the triviality debate, and (d)reconsidering a number of issues in the ongoing debate about“subjective” versus “objective” measurement approaches to workdimensions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Occupational Health Psychology American Psychological Association

Measuring Job Stressors and Studying the Health Impact of the Work Environment: An Epidemiologic Commentary

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 American Psychological Association
ISSN
1076-8998
eISSN
1939-1307
DOI
10.1037/1076-8998.3.4.390
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Abstract

This article provides a commentary on 5 articles in thespecial section that marshal a substantial amount of informationabout 4 instruments for measuring work stress. The perspective isthat of psychosocial epidemiology and highlights the differencesbetween the environmental and the psychological traditions ofstudying stress and health. Several issues are addressed: (a)placing the 4 measures in a broader taxonomy of dimensions of workenvironment and evaluating the mea sures in that context, (b)discussing alternative strategies for measuring job strains, (c)analyzing some of the issues in the triviality debate, and (d)reconsidering a number of issues in the ongoing debate about“subjective” versus “objective” measurement approaches to workdimensions.

Journal

Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Oct 1, 1998

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