Explaining employees' health care costs: A prospective examination of stressful job demands, personal control, and physiological reactivity
| Autor: | Daniel C. Ganster, Marilyn L. Fox, Deborah J. Dwyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Control (management) Psychological intervention Nurses Workload Epidemiology Health care medicine Humans Workplace Psychiatry Internal-External Control Applied Psychology business.industry Job design Health Care Costs Middle Aged Mental health Health Benefit Plans Employee Female Perception Occupational stress business Psychology Stress Psychological Forecasting Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Psychology. 86:954-964 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1854 0021-9010 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0021-9010.86.5.954 |
| Popis: | The authors tested the ability of stressful demands and personal control in the workplace to predict employees' subsequent health care costs in a sample of 105 full-time nurses. Both subjective and objective measures of workload demands interacted with personal control perceptions in predicting the cumulative health care costs over the ensuing 5-year period. Tonic elevations in salivary cortisol, moreover, mediated the effects of demands and control on health care costs. Neither the job demands variables nor physiological reactivity measures, however, explained subsequent mental health. The results support findings from the epidemiological literature that demonstrate an important role for employees' control in explaining occupational inequalities in coronary heart disease and mortality. The authors argue that the results also encourage control-enhancing job design interventions by suggesting that their outcomes can benefit both organizations and their members. |
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