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| Ari VäänänenSummaryAffiliation: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Country: Finland Publications
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Role clarity, fairness, and organizational climate as predictors of sickness absence: a prospective study in the private sectorAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Public Health 32:426-34. 2004..The authors examined less-studied work-related psychosocial predictors of sickness absence in the private sector by socioeconomic status...
Formulation of work stress in 1960-2000: analysis of scientific works from the perspective of historical sociologyAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
Soc Sci Med 75:784-94. 2012....
Sense of coherence and diabetes: a prospective occupational cohort studyAnne M Kouvonen
Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, University of Nottingham, 8 William Lee Buildings, Nottingham Science and Technology Park, University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2RQ, UK
BMC Public Health 8:46. 2008..However, the relationship between SOC and diabetes has not been studied in prospective design. The present study prospectively examined the relationship between a weak SOC and the incidence of diabetes...- Engagement in cultural activities and cause-specific mortality: prospective cohort studyAri Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organisations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Prev Med 49:142-7. 2009..To determine the relation between engagement in cultural activities and main causes of mortality among full-time employees... - 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.... - The role of work group in individual sickness absence behaviorAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Helsinki, Finland
J Health Soc Behav 49:452-67. 2008..We conclude that work group moderates the extent to which individuals with a liberal attitude toward work attendance actually engage in sickness absence behavior... - Organisational merger and psychiatric morbidity: a prospective study in a changing work organisationAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:682-7. 2011..The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a negative change during an organisational merger is an independent predictive factor of psychiatric morbidity... - Lack of predictability at work and risk of acute myocardial infarction: an 18-year prospective study of industrial employeesAri Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Public Health 98:2264-71. 2008.... - Social support, network heterogeneity, and smoking behavior in women: the 10-town studyAri Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organisations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Health Promot 22:246-55. 2008..Examine the associations among social support, network heterogeneity, and smoking behavior in a large sample of Finnish female municipal employees... - Work-family characteristics as determinants of sickness absence: a large-scale cohort study of three occupational gradesAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Helsinki, Finland
J Occup Health Psychol 13:181-96. 2008..The authors conclude that some specific work-family characteristics play a role in sickness absence, but their impact on sickness absence partly varies according to gender and occupational grade... - Change in reciprocity as a predictor of depressive symptoms: a prospective cohort study of Finnish women and menAri Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 67:1907-16. 2008..We conclude that, for women, a shift in their close relationships toward support receiving may lead to increased risk of depressive symptoms, whereas for men a shift toward giving may have a parallel though less evident impact... - Maintenance of subjective health during a merger: the role of experienced change and pre-merger social support at work in white- and blue-collar workersAri Väänänen
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, Helsinki FIN 00250, Finland
Soc Sci Med 58:1903-15. 2004..We conclude that negative changes experienced in one's job position and lack of upper-level social support at work create a potential risk for health impairment in different employee groups in merging enterprises... - The double burden of and negative spillover between paid and domestic work: associations with health among men and womenAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Topeliuksenkatu 41 A, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Women Health 40:1-18. 2004..We conclude that negative work-family spillover especially is associated with health problems among both women and men, and negative family-work spillover is related to a poorer health status among women... - 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... - When it is better to give than to receive: long-term health effects of perceived reciprocity in support exchangeAri Väänänen
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:176-93. 2005..The findings on women are in line with the esteem enhancement theory. No support was obtained for the equity theory... - Sources of social support as determinants of psychiatric morbidity after severe life events: prospective cohort study of female employeesAri Väänänen
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki
J Psychosom Res 58:459-67. 2005..The aim of this study was to study prospectively the associations between sources of social support, life events, and psychiatric morbidity, as explicated in the chronic strain and the stress-buffering hypotheses... - Burnout as a predictor of medically certified sick-leave absences and their diagnosed causesSalla Toppinen-Tanner
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Behav Med 31:18-27. 2005..The results of this study show that burnout is related to increased risk of future illness. This implies that burnout prevention can reduce future absenteeism and has a major economic impact on work life and health care... - Sex differences in health effects of family death or illness: are women more vulnerable than men?Jussi Vahtera
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku, Finland
Psychosom Med 68:283-91. 2006..To study sex differences in health after stressful life events in the family... - Psychosocial work environment and hospital admissions due to mental disorders: a 15-year prospective study of industrial employeesMatti Joensuu
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Work Organizations, Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 124:118-25. 2010..We examined whether components of job control and work-related social support predict medically-certified mental disorders... - Differential associations of job control components with mortality: a cohort study, 1986-2005Matti Joensuu
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, Helsinki
Am J Epidemiol 175:609-19. 2012..03 (95% CI: 1.03, 4.00), respectively. The results suggest that job control is not an unequivocal concept in relation to mortality; decision authority and skill discretion show different and to some extent opposite associations... - Burnout as a predictor of all-cause mortality among industrial employees: a 10-year prospective register-linkage studyKirsi Ahola
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Psychosom Res 69:51-7. 2010..Burnout, a psychological consequence of prolonged work stress, has been shown to coexist with physical and mental disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate whether burnout is related to all-cause mortality among employees... - Work stress in the etiology of coronary heart disease--a meta-analysisMika Kivimaki
Finnish Insitute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Work Environ Health 32:431-42. 2006..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... - Job characteristics, physical and psychological symptoms, and social support as antecedents of sickness absence among men and women in the private industrial sectorAri Väänänen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN 00250, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 57:807-24. 2003..The results showing which variables are related to employees' sickness absenteeism in the private industrial sector can be applied in human resource management and health service planning... - Prevalent cardiovascular disease, risk factors and selection out of shift workMika Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Work Environ Health 32:204-8. 2006..This study examines whether health-related selection out of shift work is likely to bias the association between shift work and cardiovascular disease (CVD)... - Organizational change and employees' mental health: the protective role of sense of coherenceKrista Pahkin
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Occup Environ Med 53:118-23. 2011..To examine the impact of sense of coherence (SOC) on psychiatric events in the context of organizational merger... - Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity: a 19-year register-based prospective studyAnne M Kouvonen
Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:255-61. 2010..The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time...