Job involvement as a moderator variable in the life events stress-illness relationship

Job involvement as a moderator variable in the life events stress-illness relationship

It is hypothesized that the relationship between life events and reported symptoms of psychological and physical illness is moderated by the extent to which a person is job-involved. Analysis of the data in a sample of employed men shows large correlations between a measure of life events and report...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Occupational Behaviour 1985-10, Vol.6 (4), p.299-303
Hauptverfasser: Innes, J. M., Clarke, Adrienne
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Correlations
Diseases
Health status
Job stress
Life events
Moderator variables
Personality psychology
Psychological stress
Psychometrics
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Zusammenfassung:It is hypothesized that the relationship between life events and reported symptoms of psychological and physical illness is moderated by the extent to which a person is job-involved. Analysis of the data in a sample of employed men shows large correlations between a measure of life events and reported symptoms for men with low job involvement, substantially higher than where the men are highly job-involved.
ISSN:0894-3796
0142-2774
1099-1379
DOI:10.1002/job.4030060407