M Kivimaki

..We studied whether health resources, measured as sense of coherence (SOC), are associated with participation in a follow-up survey among permanent and non-permanent employees who responded at baseline...

..The present study reports on the psychometric properties of an 8-item measure of social capital at work...

..This study aims to reveal differences and potential inequalities in physician visits among seven groups in the core-periphery structures of the labour markets...

..We examined associations between socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood, adult CRP, and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a presymptomatic predictor of coronary heart disease, in a population of young adults...

..7, 95% CI: 0.5, 0.9 for men and women combined). These findings suggest that the conventional research practice of treating the employed as a single group may attenuate the associations between employment status and mortality...

..To examine the association of childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) with adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and vascular function in a contemporary population of young adults...

..To examine the association between sickness absence and mortality compared with associations between established health indicators and mortality...

..Justice is a fundamental value in human societies, but its effect on health is poorly described. We examined justice at work as a predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD)...

..These data suggest that early socioeconomic disadvantage influences later blood pressure in part through an effect on blood pressure in early life, which tracks into adulthood, and in part through an effect on BMI...

..Parallel changes were not observed in relation to pessimism. These findings suggest that optimism may reduce the risk of health problems and may be related to a faster recovery after a major life event...

..To prospectively examine the role of childhood and adulthood factors in the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and adult systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP)...

..This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health...

..We examined the prospective association between occupational stress and incidence of newly diagnosed fibromyalgia...

..Although sick, some people take no time off work, a phenomenon called "sickness presenteeism." This study examined the association between sickness presenteeism and incidence of serious coronary events...

..Using longitudinal data, we studied whether work stress induced weight loss in lean individuals and weight gain in overweight individuals...

..However, previous studies have typically assessed job strain at one point in time only. We examined whether the failure of such measurement to reflect long-term job strain could contribute to false null findings...

..A chronic lack of recovery from work during leisure time is hypothesized to indicate a health risk among employees. We examined whether incomplete recovery from work predicted cardiovascular mortality...

..The authors examined whether working in downsizing organisations predicts use of psychotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment...

..This study focused on estimating the relative risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in association with work stress, as indicated by the job-strain model, the effort-reward imbalance model, and the organizational injustice model...

..This study examined socio-economic differences in antidepressant prescriptions and mortality related to depressive disorders...

..Primary nursing and team nursing are two different ways of organizing nurses' work in hospital wards. This study examined whether primary nursing is associated with lower sickness absence rates than team nursing is...

..This study examines whether health-related selection out of shift work is likely to bias the association between shift work and cardiovascular disease (CVD)...

..Little is known about the effect of fibromyalgia on absence due to sickness in working populations...

..The authors investigated this question in a population-based cohort of 2270 Finnish children and adolescents aged 3 to 18 years at study entry...

..Whether cognitive function predicts physical function and whether physical function predicts cognitive function were assessed in middle-aged men and women...

..This study aims to examine diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a risk marker for all-cause mortality...

..To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension...

..We examined whether cognitive performance predicted mental and physical health from midlife to early old age...

..To examine the contribution of non-work and work factors to the association between income and DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorders in a working population...

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..To examine exposure to workplace bullying as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and depression in employees...

..Deficient nurturing attitudes in childhood might affect sensitivity to work stress and selection into stressful work conditions in adulthood. More attention should be paid to pre-employment factors in work stress research...

..We examined whether a major organisational change--the transfer of public sector work to executive agencies run on private sector lines--was associated with an increased risk of work disability...

..This study investigated whether team climate at work was associated with DSM-IV depressive, anxiety and alcohol use disorders and subsequent antidepressant medication in a random sample of Finnish employees...

..We tested associations between high-strain and active jobs and cognitive function in middle-aged men and women...

..To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded absences from the employers' registers for the same period...

..This study examined whether pre-employment family factors and participants' own dispositional factors contribute to the relationship between job strain and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) among male employees...

..The present study sought to assess whether C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 predict cognitive symptoms of depression or whether these symptoms predict inflammatory markers...

..We investigated whether exposure to passive jobs, measured three times over an average of 5 years, is associated with leisure-time physical activity (LTPA)...

..No 3-way interaction of job demand, job control, and social support on IMT was found. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that job strain may be related to atherosclerosis already in its early nonsymptomatic stages in men...

..High sickness absence is associated with poor health status, but it is not known whether low levels of sickness absence among people with poor health predict future health improvement...

..This study examined sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent workers...

..To determine whether change in employment status (from fixed term to permanent employment) is followed by changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence...

..Pre-employment influences did not confound the association between job strain and atherosclerosis...

..This study, carried out in Finland 2000-2003, examined the associations of low social support at work and in private life with DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorders and subsequent antidepressant medication...

..It also refers to respectful and considerate treatment of individuals by supervisors (relational justice)...

..15 to 1.23. These findings suggest that migraine is associated with increased risk of recorded sickness absence independent of depression and respiratory disorders...

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..To investigate the association between effort/reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle...

..To determine whether sickness absence is a prognostic marker in terms of mortality among people with common chronic conditions...

..To explore the underlying mechanisms between organisational downsizing and deterioration of health of employees...

..Further research is needed to clarify whether mother-related hyperactivity adequately describes the temperament of the child or is a reflection of mother's hostile child-rearing attitudes...

..To identify determinants of sickness absence in hospital physicians...

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..Evidence on the association between job strain and ischaemic disease is mixed. This study examined whether including older age individuals in a cohort used to assess job strain attenuates findings towards the null...

..The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of the job strain model and the effort-reward imbalance model with heavy drinking...

..The authors examined whether procedural injustice and relational injustice are associated with employee health in addition to, and in combination with, effort-reward imbalance...

..To examine the association between components of organisational justice (that is, justice of decision making procedures and interpersonal treatment) and health of employees...

..2%. If the observed association is causal, our findings suggest that high effort-reward imbalance might function as a modifiable risk factor for new-onset migraine...

..To examine health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risks as antecedents of selection from fixed term to permanent employment...

..In the absence of previous studies, we sought to determine the burden of medically certified spells of sickness absence among individuals with angina and their relation to risk factors and co-morbidity...

..To examine the effects of unfairness on incident coronary events and health functioning...

..Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) has various roles in the development and function of the heart and autonomic nervous system...

..Impulsivity appears to be a distinct personality factor that may contribute to the onset of depressive illness in adults...

..The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the dimensions of the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model--effort, rewards and ERI--are associated with the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors...

..Thus, the results of this study supported the 1st hypothesis and provided evidence that perceptions of the organization are potential factors contributing to employee health...

..To determine the extent to which sickness absence is predictive of mortality...

..This study explored the health and sickness absences of contingent employees...

..Most historical studies of cardiorespiratory risk factors as predictors of mortality have been based on men. This study examines whether they predict mortality over long periods in women and men...

..To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence...

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..No support for a mediating role of health behaviors between low organizational justice and health problems was obtained...

..To study the influence of change in self perceived psychosocial work characteristics on subsequent rates of sickness absence...

..21 for men and 0.27 for women in a multivariate genetic model. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that poor sleep may have direct effects on the brain, emotions, and mood...

..We examined whether psychological problems and health-risk behaviors underpin the health effects of different event categories...

..By contrast, the findings give limited support for the moderating role of SOC on the relationship between SES and oral health-related behaviours...

..Hostility in childhood was not significantly associated with unemployment in adulthood. Thus, this study supported the psychosocial vulnerability model in men...

..This study describes CRP trajectories prior to type 2 diabetes onset and fatal CVD...

..Employees are thought to lengthen their weekends by voluntary absenteeism, but the magnitude of such potentially reversible behaviour is not known...

..In this study, these consequences were examined prospectively by focusing on sickness absence in hospital staff...

..To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and behavioural risk factors...

..This study examined whether active on-call hours and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors are associated with physicians' turnover intentions and distress...

..These findings suggest a two-way relationship between personality and having children...

..COMT gene influences dopamine transmission and dopaminergic activity might moderate effects of stress on CHD risk. We examine whether COMT Val158Met polymorphism moderates the association between job strain and atherosclerosis...

..To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism...

..Furthermore job decision latitude was associated with organizational justice both at individual and work unit level. Justice evaluations predicted sickness absence only at the individual level...

..We examined the Type A behavior across developmental periods as a predictor of adult carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT)...

..There is a large body of research on adulthood risk factors for retirement due to disability, but studies on the effect of adverse childhood experiences are scarce...

..To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking...

..In accordance with the uncertainty management model, these associations were dependent on experienced work-time control and perceived changes at work...

..High work stress could decrease physical activity but the evidence of the relationship has remained equivocal. The present study examined the association between job strain and leisure-time physical activity in a large sample of employees...

..The relationships of duty rota and liaison with other discipline to job satisfaction were weaker or non-existing...

..We aimed to review evidence on the relationship between temporary employment and health, and to see whether the association is dependent on outcome measure, instability of employment, and contextual factors...

..These prospective data suggest that preemployment factors should be taken into account as potential confounders in future research on job strain-health associations...

..Diabetes is thought to be associated with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations. We examined the contribution of co-morbidity to this association...

..CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that higher levels of depressive symptoms are associated with higher levels of CRP, but this association may largely be attributable to obesity or triglycerides...

..R., Svrakic, D.M., Przybeck, T.R., 1993. A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 50, 975-990.], predicted depressive symptoms across a 4-year follow-up...

..We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort study comparing low with high socioeconomic groups...