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Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort studyM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Division of Applied Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 13, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
BMJ 320:971-5. 2000..To explore the underlying mechanisms between organisational downsizing and deterioration of health of employees...
Hostility, unemployment and health status: testing three theoretical modelsMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN 00250, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 56:2139-52. 2003..Hostility in childhood was not significantly associated with unemployment in adulthood. Thus, this study supported the psychosocial vulnerability model in men...- Work stress and risk of cardiovascular mortality: prospective cohort study of industrial employeesMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 13, FIN 00014, Finland
BMJ 325:857. 2002..To examine the association between work stress, according to the job strain model and the effort-reward imbalance model, and the risk of death from cardiovascular disease... - Death or illness of a family member, violence, interpersonal conflict, and financial difficulties as predictors of sickness absence: longitudinal cohort study on psychological and behavioral linksMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Division of Applied Psychology, University of Helsinki and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Psychosom Med 64:817-25. 2002..We examined whether psychological problems and health-risk behaviors underpin the health effects of different event categories... - Sense of coherence as a mediator between hostility and health: seven-year prospective study on female employeesMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 13, 00014, Finland
J Psychosom Res 52:239-47. 2002..We proposed and tested a model in which low sense of coherence (SOC) was hypothesized to underlie the association between hostility and health problems... - Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective studyM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, PO Box 13, FIN 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 58:811-7. 2001..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... - Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depressionM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, FIN 00014, Finland
Occup Environ Med 60:779-83. 2003..To examine exposure to workplace bullying as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and depression in employees... - Sickness absence in hospital physicians: 2 year follow up study on determinantsM Kivimaki
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Division of Applied Psychology, PO Box 13, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 58:361-6. 2001..To identify determinants of sickness absence in hospital physicians... - Workplace bullying and sickness absence in hospital staffM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 13, FIN 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 57:656-60. 2000..In this study, these consequences were examined prospectively by focusing on sickness absence in hospital staff... - Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic declineM Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Vantaa
J Appl Psychol 82:858-72. 1997..Negative life events and the personality trait sense of coherence (in women) also predicted forthcoming absence rate. Social support did not relate to absences either in men or in women... - Sense of coherence as a modifier of occupational stress exposure, stress perception, and experienced strain: a study of industrial managersM Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Vantaa, Finland
Psychol Rep 83:971-81. 1998..Sense of coherence did not moderate the relationship among exposure to stressors, perceived stressors, and strain experienced... - Human costs of organizational downsizing: comparing health trends between leavers and stayersMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Community Psychol 32:57-67. 2003..In the reemployed leavers, the risk of increased health problems was lower than in others including employees working in no or minor downsizing groups... - Sense of coherence and health: evidence from two cross-lagged longitudinal samplesM Kivimaki
University of Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 50:583-97. 2000..Thus, the present study supports the dispositional character of SOC in both sexes and its predictive validity among women. No support was found to the salutogenic status of SOC and an unexpected gender difference was revealed... 
Contribution of non-work and work-related risk factors to the association between income and mental disorders in a working population: the Health 2000 StudyM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 65:171-8. 2008..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...- A prospective cohort study of deficient maternal nurturing attitudes predicting adulthood work stress independent of adulthood hostility and depressive symptomsM Hintsanen
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Stress 13:425-34. 2010..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... - Increased absence due to sickness among employees with fibromyalgiaM Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Ann Rheum Dis 66:65-9. 2007..Little is known about the effect of fibromyalgia on absence due to sickness in working populations... - Job strain as a predictor of disability pension: the Finnish Public Sector StudyS Laine
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:24-30. 2009..To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension... - Workplace social capital and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors: the Finnish Public Sector StudyA Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 66:432-7. 2009.... - Work disability following major organisational change: the Whitehall II studyM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Unit of Epertise for Work Organizations, Helsinki, FIN 00250, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:461-4. 2010..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... - Serotonin receptor genes 5HT1A and 5HT2A modify the relation between childhood temperament and adulthood hostilityL Keltikangas-Jarvinen
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Genes Brain Behav 7:46-52. 2008..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... - The association between team climate at work and mental health in the Finnish Health 2000 StudyM Sinokki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Lemminkäisenkatu 14 18 B, FI 20520 Turku, Finland
Occup Environ Med 66:523-8. 2009..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... - Sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent employeesM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 63:212-7. 2006..This study examined sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent workers... - From insecure to secure employment: changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absenceM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 60:948-53. 2003..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... - Is the association between job strain and carotid intima-media thickness attributable to pre-employment environmental and dispositional factors? The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns StudyT Hintsa
Department of Psychology, PO Box 9, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 65:676-82. 2008..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... - Selection from fixed term to permanent employment: prospective study on health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risksM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:693-9. 2002..To examine health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risks as antecedents of selection from fixed term to permanent employment... - Association between organizational inequity and incidence of psychiatric disorders in female employeesM Kivimaki
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Psychol Med 33:319-26. 2003..It also refers to respectful and considerate treatment of individuals by supervisors (relational justice)... - Effort/reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohortA Kouvonen
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 63:422-7. 2006..To investigate the association between effort/reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle... - Work stress and new-onset migraine in a female employee populationK Maki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Cephalalgia 28:18-25. 2008..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... - Sickness absence among female employees with migraine and co-existing conditionsK Maki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Cephalalgia 28:1136-44. 2008..15 to 1.23. These findings suggest that migraine is associated with increased risk of recorded sickness absence independent of depression and respiratory disorders... - Organisational justice and health of employees: prospective cohort studyM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 60:27-33; discussion 33-4. 2003..To examine the association between components of organisational justice (that is, justice of decision making procedures and interpersonal treatment) and health of employees... - Effect of change in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence: a seven year follow up of initially healthy employeesJ Vahtera
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Hameenkatu 10, FIN 20500 Turku, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:484-93. 2000..To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence... - Contingent employment, health and sickness absenceM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Helsinki
Scand J Work Environ Health 27:365-72. 2001..This study explored the health and sickness absences of contingent employees... - Organization justice evaluations, job control, and occupational strainM Elovainio
National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Appl Psychol 86:418-24. 2001..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... - The role of extended weekends in sickness absenteeismJ Vahtera
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Hameenkatu 10, FIN 20500 Turku, Finland
Occup Environ Med 58:818-22. 2001..Employees are thought to lengthen their weekends by voluntary absenteeism, but the magnitude of such potentially reversible behaviour is not known... - Socioeconomic position in childhood and adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and function: cardiovascular risk in young Finns studyM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Heart 92:474-80. 2006..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... - Are intrinsic motivational factors of work associated with functional incapacity similarly regardless of the country?A Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:858-63. 2005..The purpose of this study was to examine the level of intrinsic motivational factors and their impact on functional incapacity in different countries in a multinational corporation... - Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employeesJ Vahtera
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:321-6. 2004..To determine the extent to which sickness absence is predictive of mortality... - Self-esteem and the occupational stress process: testing two alternative models in a sample of blue-collar workersM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Vantaa, Finland
J Occup Health Psychol 1:187-96. 1996..These observations were made in the context of psychological strain symptoms but not in the context of physiological strain symptoms... - Hostility in adolescents and adults: a genome-wide association study of the Young FinnsP Merjonen
IBS, Unit of Personality, Work and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Transl Psychiatry 1:e11. 2011..These suggestive associations did not replicate across all measurement times, which warrants further study on these SNPs in other populations... - Sickness absence among Finnish special and general education teachersJ Ervasti
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Med (Lond) 61:465-71. 2011..e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such as special education teachers... - Cloninger's temperament dimensions and epidermal growth factor A61G polymorphism in Finnish adultsL Keltikangas-Jarvinen
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Genes Brain Behav 5:11-8. 2006..Our results demonstrate the importance of reliable phenotype assessment and lend support to the hypothesis that dopaminergic activity is one factor underlying stable temperament... - Job strain in relation to body mass index: pooled analysis of 160 000 adults from 13 cohort studiesS T Nyberg
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki
J Intern Med 272:65-73. 2012..Evidence of an association between job strain and obesity is inconsistent, mostly limited to small-scale studies, and does not distinguish between categories of underweight or obesity subclasses... - Work stress, weight gain and weight loss: evidence for bidirectional effects of job strain on body mass index in the Whitehall II studyM Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:982-7. 2006..Using longitudinal data, we studied whether work stress induced weight loss in lean individuals and weight gain in overweight individuals... - Organizational and individual factors affecting mental health and job satisfaction: a multilevel analysis of job control and personalityM Elovainio
National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Vantaa
J Occup Health Psychol 5:269-77. 2000..Job control accounted for most of this multilevel variation. Thus, this study demonstrated the significance of individual characteristics and organizational effects in explaining the mental health and job satisfaction of employees... - Hostility and ill health: role of psychosocial resources in two contexts of working lifeJ Vahtera
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku
J Psychosom Res 48:89-98. 2000..The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which increased risk to health problems in hostile employees is associated with psychosocial resources and life context... - The effects of personal need for structure and occupational identity in the role stress processM Elovainio
Department of Social Research, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Soc Psychol 141:365-78. 2001..They tested these models by using hierarchical regression analysis and structural equation modeling (LISREL 8; K. G. Jöreskog & D. Sörbom, 1993). Both hypotheses were supported...