Health lifestyles and self-direction in employment among American men: a test of the spillover effect.
This paper examines whether American males with a high degree of control over their work situation pursue healthy lifestyles and rate their physical health more positively than those who score low on occupational self-direction. That is, are persons who control their work more likely to also try to control their health through living in a particularly healthy manner? We found that there was no support for a spillover effect from high occupational self-direction to enhanced participation in health lifestyles or more positive self-rated health. The findings suggest health lifestyles have spread throughout occupational work groups in the U.S. and support research that maintains such lifestyles have spread across social strata in America.
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University of Marburg, F.R.G.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D004651:Employment; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States