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International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2/2010

Open Access 01-06-2010

A Longitudinal Test of the Demand–Control Model Using Specific Job Demands and Specific Job Control

Authors: Jan de Jonge, Natasja van Vegchel, Akihito Shimazu, Wilmar Schaufeli, Christian Dormann

Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Issue 2/2010

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Abstract

Background

Supportive studies of the demand–control (DC) model were more likely to measure specific demands combined with a corresponding aspect of control.

Purpose

A longitudinal test of Karasek’s (Adm Sci Q. 24:285–308, 1) job strain hypothesis including specific measures of job demands and job control, and both self-report and objectively recorded well-being.

Method

Job strain hypothesis was tested among 267 health care employees from a two-wave Dutch panel survey with a 2-year time lag.

Results

Significant demand/control interactions were found for mental and emotional demands, but not for physical demands. The association between job demands and job satisfaction was positive in case of high job control, whereas this association was negative in case of low job control. In addition, the relation between job demands and psychosomatic health symptoms/sickness absence was negative in case of high job control and positive in case of low control.

Conclusion

Longitudinal support was found for the core assumption of the DC model with specific measures of job demands and job control as well as self-report and objectively recorded well-being.
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Metadata
Title
A Longitudinal Test of the Demand–Control Model Using Specific Job Demands and Specific Job Control
Authors
Jan de Jonge
Natasja van Vegchel
Akihito Shimazu
Wilmar Schaufeli
Christian Dormann
Publication date
01-06-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Issue 2/2010
Print ISSN: 1070-5503
Electronic ISSN: 1532-7558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-010-9081-1

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