Two models of job stress and depressive symptoms
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 24 October 2007
Nico Dragano, Ying He, Susanne Moebus, Karl‐Heinz Jöckel, Raimund Erbel, Johannés Siegrist
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Components of an adverse psychosocial work environment are associated with depressive symptoms in an unselected working population and policy implications of accumulated evidence on this relation should be addressed.
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Components of an adverse psychosocial work environment are associated with depressive symptoms in an unselected working population. Policy implications of accumulated evidence on this relation should be addressed.
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