Occupational stress and health care use.
This study investigated the relationship between health care use and (a) stressful work events; (b) strain; (c) social support; (d) type of job and industry; and (e) the individual characteristics of control, commitment, and length of time in position. A sample of 260 individuals (95 men, 165 women) from two different industries was used. Correlational analyses suggested that health care claims and costs were positively related to stressful work events and strain and negatively related to employees' length of time in position. Industry type also played a role in predicting the health care variables. Multivariate analyses suggested that environmental, stressor, and strain variables accounted for up to 16% of the variance in health care costs and 21.5% of the variance in number of health care claims.
Manning
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Department of Management, College of Business Administration and Economics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003-0001, USA. mmanning@nmsu.edu
Jackson
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Fusilier
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D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D009790:Occupations; D010551:Personality; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D016526:Workload