M Elovainio

..STUDY REGISTRATION: UKCRN ref:DRN120 (ICPD)...

..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...

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

..We examined whether team climate, as indicated by clear and shared goals, participation, task orientation and support for innovation, predicts intention to leave the job and actual turnover among hospital employees...

..To examine the relation between perceived organisational justice and cardiovascular reactivity in women...

..Our findings suggest that diagnosing and treating depression among patients having menstrual problems may improve the continuity of LNG-IUS treatment of menorrhagia...

..This study examined the justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal relations as a psychosocial predictor of health...

..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...

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

..We tested the hypothesis that both obesity and unexplained weight loss are related to elevated suicide risk...

..Previous studies have suggested that the extent to which employees are treated with justice at the workplace contributes to their health. We examined whether justice at work predicted incidence of deaths from cardiovascular disease...

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

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

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

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

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

..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...

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..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...

..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...

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

..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...

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

..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...

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

..To examine the association between work hours, work stress, and collaboration among the ward personnel, and the risk of hospital-associated infection among patients...

..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...

..Unit size and resident turnover were negatively and registered nurses percentage positively associated with procedural justice perceptions...

..These suggestive associations did not replicate across all measurement times, which warrants further study on these SNPs in other populations...

..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...

..The extent to which work stressors and stress predicted injuries occur in a large population of Finnish hospital workers was studied...

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

..To examine whether exposure to long working hours predicts various forms of sleep disturbance; short sleep, difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking, early waking and waking without feeling refreshed...

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

..Work stressors may be reduced by specializing, so that residents with similar care needs are placed together and care is focused...

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

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

..Being retired before the age of 55 years may be predicted by limited social support or it may restrain one's possibilities to establish and maintain social relationships...

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

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

..The purpose to clarify what kind of managerial challenges employees experience regarding organisational justice in hospitals...

..A number of studies suggest that variants in dopamine receptor genes, such as DRD2, are associated with depression but it is unclear if such variants also modify the association between life events and depression...

..We prospectively examined whether preemployment family factors predict adulthood work stress manifested as effort-reward imbalance (ERI)...

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..Previous studies suggest lower blood pressure (BP) and reduced risk of CHD among employees with high organizational justice (the perception of being treated fairly by supervisors)...

..Early retirement among physicians is a worldwide problem and all efforts to try to minimize it are of importance...

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

..This study examined the associations between nurse working conditions (time pressure and perceived unfair management) and quality indicators (prevalence of antianxiety or hypnotic drug use and pressure ulcers) in long-term care units...

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

..This has led to the suggestion that poor psychosocial work environments provide important additional explanatory power. However, little evidence is available for women...

..This paper is a report of an investigation into whether insecure work contract and shiftwork are associated with reduced wellbeing indicators, such as psychological distress, low job involvement and low work ability...

..To examine the reciprocal associations between depressive symptoms and clinical definitions of the metabolic syndrome in childhood and adulthood...

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

..We studied the impact of comorbidity and recency in psychiatric disorders on psychological well-being, perceived health, and quality of life and compared their effect with the effect of a chronic medical condition, type 2 diabetes mellitus...

..We examined the effects of different diagnoses, namely, all causes, circulatory diseases, diseases of the digestive system, musculoskeletal diseases, and mental disorders...

..It is generally acknowledged that depressed patients need specific attention during the first weeks after initiation of antidepressant (AD) treatment because of the increased risk of suicide...

..We examined various BMI operationalizations in relation to mortality from all causes and specific causes...

..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...

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

..Social support may therefore be a long-term protective factor from depression irrespective of personality characteristics, such as hostility and anger...

..Instead, nonhostile employees were sensitive to the depression in the unit. They reported low levels of stress when depression levels in the unit were low and increased stress when depression levels were high...

..No gender differences were found in associations of illness perceptions with health status or QOL ratings...

..This study examined the effects of nursing working conditions on the use of physical restraints and antipsychotics as restraints in long-term care units for elderly residents...

..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...

..This report assessed whether hospital ward overcrowding predicts antidepressant use among hospital staff...

..The authors conclude that the association of cynical hostility with smoking and alcohol use seems to be independent of intergenerational social mobility and childhood and adulthood SES...

..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...

..The findings suggest that temperamental difficulty in childhood may be a useful risk indicator for general body mass in adulthood, and the mechanisms relating temperament with body mass should be further explored...

..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 sociodemographic, work-related factors and psychological health as predictors of sustained organizational commitment among temporary hospital employees...

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

..In the reemployed leavers, the risk of increased health problems was lower than in others including employees working in no or minor downsizing groups...

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..Our findings highlight the importance of offering more job control to physicians to prevent unnecessary physician turnover...

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

..However, the relationship between pre-employment factors and later psychological distress in adulthood is not completely explained by job environment...

..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)...

..We examined the associations between socioeconomic position, co-occurrence of behavior-related risk factors, and the effect of these factors on the relative and absolute socioeconomic gradients in coronary heart disease...

..Shift work is associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, but the timing or mechanisms of this association is unclear...

..Psychosocial climate at school reported by school personnel may be related to pupils' reports of being heard at school, depression, physical and psychological symptoms, truancy and received health education...

..In this study, the associations of the APOE gene promoter polymorphisms -219G/T and +113G/C and their haplotypes with depressive symptoms were examined...

..We examined the associations of contractual job insecurity (fixed-term vs permanent employment contract) and subjectively assessed job insecurity with sickness presenteeism among those who had no sickness absences during the study year...

..To examine the extent to which the justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal relationships is associated with smoking...

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

..In the multilevel analysis, adjustments were made for demographics, work factors and the socioeconomic status of the teacher's own residential area...

..To investigate the effect of the local economy, as measured by municipal revenue and local unemployment rate, on sickness absence among the employed...

..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...

..To study sex differences in health after stressful life events in the family...

..To investigate whether low perceived organisational injustice predicts heavy drinking among employees...

..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...

..In conclusion, work unit social factors seem to be predictive of subsequent doctor-diagnosed depression, but other aspects of psychosocial work environment may also be important...

..136) and pNN50 (p=0.236) attenuated to the null, but adjustment for biological risk factors had little effect. Reward dependence and persistence were unrelated to indices of cardiac regulation...

..Aggregate-level social capital was not associated with subsequent depression...

..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...

..However, only limited empirical evidence on this mechanism is available...

..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...

..This paper reports a study examining whether nurses' work overload is associated with increased sick leave and quantifying the loss of working days from work overload...

..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...

..Gene-environment interactions are assumed to be involved in the development of depression...