Book description
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology.
Updated edition of a highly successful handbook
Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology
New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field
Prestigious team of editors and contributors
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction
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PART I: The Context of Work and Health Today
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CHAPTER 2: Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract
- 2.1 INTRODUCTION
- 2.2 WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT AND WHY IS IT RELEVANT TO THE STUDY OF EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING?
- 2.3 RESEARCHING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT AND OUTCOMES
- 2.4 STUDIES OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT AND WELL-BEING
- 2.5 POLICIES AND PRACTICES TO PROMOTE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT
- 2.6 CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 3: The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement
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CHAPTER 4: The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
- 4.1 THE OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE REVIEW
- 4.2 A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS AT WORK
- 4.3 MODELS EXPLAINING THE EFFECTS OF WORK STRESS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS
- 4.4 THE JDC-S MODEL AND BLOOD LIPIDS
- 4.5 THE JDC-S MODEL AND BLOOD PRESSURE
- 4.6 THE JDC-S MODEL AND MICRO-INFLAMMATION BIOMARKERS
- 4.7 THE JDC-S MODEL AND SLEEP PROBLEMS
- 4.8 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 5: Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice
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CHAPTER 2: Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract
- PART II: Individual Differences and Health
- PART III: The Role of Workplace Factors on Health
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PART IV: Supporting Individuals at Work
- CHAPTER 14: Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person
- CHAPTER 15: Coaching in Organizations
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CHAPTER 16: Women’s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation
- 16.1 STRESSORS IN THE WORKPLACE
- 16.2 EXAMINING THE MODEL OF RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM
- 16.3 THE STRESS OF WORK AND ITS INFLUENCE ON WOMEN
- 16.4 JOB-RELATED STRESSORS UNIQUE TO WOMEN
- 16.5 WORKPLACE SUPPORT
- 16.6 EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUALISTIC ORIENTATION IN THE WORKPLACE
- 16.7 STRESS AT HOME
- 16.8 WORK–FAMILY ROLE CONFLICT
- 16.9 HOME-BASED SUPPORT
- 16.10 COMMUNAL ORIENTATION: DEVELOPING A COLLECTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
- 16.11 THE MULTIAXIAL MODEL OF COPING
- 16.12 HOW THE MULTIAXIAL MODEL OF COPING CHANGES COMMON COPING ASSUMPTIONS
- 16.13 IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTION
- 16.14 CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 17: Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer
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PART V: Organizational Approaches to Health and Well-Being
- CHAPTER 18: Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress
- CHAPTER 19: Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being
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CHAPTER 20: Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture1
- 20.1 INTRODUCTION: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, EVERYDAY REALITY AND STRESS
- 20.2 EVERYDAY WORK: STABILITY AND CHANGE
- 20.3 THE WORK ITSELF
- 20.4 THE WORK ENVIRONMENT: ORDERLINESS
- 20.5 THE WORK ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL EMBEDDING
- 20.6 THE WORK ENVIRONMENT: COMPATIBILITY OF CONVICTIONS, VALUES AND GOALS
- 20.7 INTERVENTIONS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 21: Epilogue
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2015
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781119057000
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