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On cross-sectional questionnaire studies of relationships between psychosocial conditions at work and health—are they reliable?

Authors: Töres Theorell, Hans Martin Hasselhorn

Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Issue 7/2005

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It is not known to what extent self reported assessments of the psychosocial work environment—that the majority of research reports have been based upon—reflect individual characteristics (which may distort the perception of reality) and to what extent they reflect true environmental conditions. Critics argue that “subjectivity bias” may explain most of the observed associations between psychosocial working conditions and health (Wainwright and Calnan 2002; Mc Leod and Davey Smith 2003). This is indeed a classical problem in this research. We will discuss some aspects of this but the reader interested in the whole range of assessment problems is referred to other articles (for instance Zapf et al. 1996). …

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Title: On cross-sectional questionnaire studies of relationships between psychosocial conditions at work and health—are they reliable?
Authors: Töres Theorell
Hans Martin Hasselhorn
Publication date: 01-08-2005
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Issue 7/2005
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-005-0618-6

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