Social adversity in adolescence increases the physiological vulnerability to job strain in adulthood: a prospective population-based studyHugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 7:e35967. 2012
..We therefore investigated if early life exposure to adversity increases the individual's physiological vulnerability job strain in adulthood...
- Effect of retirement on major chronic conditions and fatigue: French GAZEL occupational cohort study
Hugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
BMJ 341:c6149. 2010
..Design Prospective study with repeat measures from 7 years before to 7 years after retirement...
Self-rated health before and after retirement in France (GAZEL): a cohort studyHugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Lancet 374:1889-96. 2009
..Governments need to increase the proportion of the population in work in most developed countries because of ageing populations. We investigated longitudinally how self-perceived health is affected by work and retirement in older workers...
- Does working while ill trigger serious coronary events? The Whitehall II study
Hugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
J Occup Environ Med 51:1099-104. 2009
..Working while ill has been found to predict coronary heart disease. We tested if this association was due to triggering...
- Managerial leadership is associated with employee stress, health, and sickness absence independently of the demand-control-support model
Hugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Work 37:71-9. 2010
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- Sickness presenteeism is more than an alternative to sickness absence: results from the population-based SLOSH study
Constanze Leineweber
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 85:905-14. 2012
..The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the contemporaneous positive association between sickness absence and sickness presenteeism can be explained by illness, work incapacity, and/or work environment...
- Psychosocial working conditions and depressive symptoms among Swedish employees
Linda L Magnusson Hanson
Work Organisation and Health, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 82:951-60. 2009
..To investigate prospective associations between working conditions and depressive symptoms in Swedish men and women...
- Non-listening and self centered leadership--relationships to socioeconomic conditions and employee mental health
Tores Theorell
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 7:e44119. 2012
..The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health...
- Sickness presenteeism predicts suboptimal self-rated health and sickness absence: a nationally representative study of the Swedish working population
Marina Taloyan
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 7:e44721. 2012
..Earlier studies have suggested that sickness presenteeism (SP) may be a risk factor for future health problems. The purpose of the present study was to test this in a nationally representative prospective study of Swedish workers...
- Work-related sleep disturbances and sickness absence in the Swedish working population, 1993-1999
Hugo Westerlund
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Sleep 31:1169-77. 2008
..To examine secular trends in work-related sleep disturbances and their association with sickness absence in the Swedish working population...
- Subjective social status: its determinants and association with health in the Swedish working population (the SLOSH study)
Michiko Miyakawa
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 22:593-7. 2012
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- How valid is a short measure of effort-reward imbalance at work? A replication study from Sweden
Constanze Leineweber
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Occup Environ Med 67:526-31. 2010
..There is an urgent need for validated measures of health-adverse psychosocial work environments. We tested the validity of a newly developed short version of the original questionnaire measuring effort-reward imbalance at work (ERI)...
- Sickness presenteeism among Swedish police officers
Constanze Leineweber
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
J Occup Rehabil 21:17-22. 2011
..The aim was to describe the prevalence of sickness presenteeism (SP) and to explore possible associations with work characteristics among Swedish police officers...
- Managerial leadership is associated with self-reported sickness absence and sickness presenteeism among Swedish men and women
Anna Nyberg
Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 36:803-11. 2008
..The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between managerial leadership and self-reported sickness absence/presenteeism among Swedish men and women...
- Cross-lagged relationships between workplace demands, control, support, and sleep problems
Linda L Magnusson Hanson
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Sleep 34:1403-10. 2011
..This study examines longitudinal, bidirectional relationships between work characteristics and sleep problems...
- Determinants in adolescence for adult sickness absence in women and men: a 26-year follow-up of a prospective population based cohort (Northern Swedish cohort)
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Insurance Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Public Health 13:75. 2013
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- Health effects on leaders and co-workers of an art-based leadership development program
Julia Romanowska
Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Psychother Psychosom 80:78-87. 2011
..The purpose of the study was to examine whether an art-based leadership program may have a more beneficial effect than a conventional one on leaders' and their corresponding subordinates' mental and biological stress...
- Destructive managerial leadership and psychological well-being among employees in Swedish, Polish, and Italian hotels
Anna Nyberg
Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Work 39:267-81. 2011
..The aim of this cross-sectional exploratory study was to investigate destructive managerial leadership in the hotel industry in Sweden, Poland, and Italy in relation to psychological well-being among employees...
Workplace expansion, long-term sickness absence, and hospital admissionHugo Westerlund
National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
Lancet 363:1193-7. 2004
..Downsizing has in previous studies, as well as in public debate, been associated with increased sickness absence. No studies have, however, looked at the long-term relation between workplace expansion and morbidity...
- Is cultural activity at work related to mental health in employees?
Tores Theorell
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Fack 710632, R 017, SE 106 54 Stockholm, Sweden
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 86:281-8. 2013
..To examine relationships between work-based cultural activities and mental employee health in working Swedes...
- Improvements in physical and mental health following a rehabilitation programme for breast cancer patients
Aina Johnsson
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Social Work, Sodersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Oncol Nurs 15:12-5. 2011
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- Demand, control and social climate as predictors of emotional exhaustion symptoms in working Swedish men and women
Linda L Magnusson Hanson
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 36:737-43. 2008
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- Organizational instability and cardiovascular risk factors in white-collar employees: an analysis of correlates of structural instability of workplace organization on risk factors for coronary heart disease in a sample of 3,904 white collar employees in t
Hugo Westerlund
National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 14:37-42. 2004
..The economic crisis in Sweden in the 1990s led to major reorganization at many workplaces, which appears to have had negative consequences for occupational and public health...
- Involvement and structure: a qualitative study of organizational change and sickness absence among women in the public sector in Sweden
Maria Baltzer
Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Public Health 11:318. 2011
..We used qualitative interviews to explore work environment factors underlying the impact of organizational changes (moderate and large expansions in staffing) on sickness absence from an employee perspective...
