WORK AND STRESS Volume 17 2003 Taylor & Francis Tayl& oFrarnci s Group work Tom Cox (Managing Editor) Mary Tisserand (Assistant Editor) Institute of Work, Health and Organisations (I- WHO), University of Nottingham, William Lee Buildings, Unit 8, Nottingham Science and Technology Park, University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2RQ, UK Email: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Frank Bond, Goldsmiths Colleg~e~ , University of London, UK ADVISORY BOARD Philip Dewe, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Michiel Kompier, University of Niymegen, The Netherlands Tage Kristensen, National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark Phil Leather, University of Nottingham, UK Bonita Long, University of British Columbia, Canada Mike O’Driscoll, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Sharon Parker, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Ray Randall, University of Nottingham, UK Arie Shirom, Tel Aviv University, Israel Johannes Siegrist, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Paul Spector, University of South Florida, USA Toon Taris, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands José M. Tomas, University of Valencia, Spain CONSULTING EDITORS Blake Ashforth, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Pascale Carayon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Sue Cox, Lancaster University, UK Paul Edwards, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Eamonn Ferguson, University of Nottingham, UK Sabine Geurts, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Sabir Giga, Manchester School of Management, UK Richard Graveling, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK Amanda Griffiths, University of Nottingham, UK Gunn Johansson, University of Stockholm, Sweden Masaharu Kumashiro, Fukuoka, Japan Marion Leducg, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK Kathryn Mearns, University of Aberdeen, UK José Maria Peiré, University of Valencia, Spain Steve Sauter, NIOSH, Cincinnati, USA Wilmar Schaufeli, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lawrence Smith, University of Leeds, UK Valerie Sutherland, Sutherland-Bradley Associates, UK Noreen Tehrani, Assessment & Rehabilitation Consultants, UK, London Tores Theorell, Karolinska Institute. Sweden Phil Tucker, University of Wales Swansea, UK Holger Ursin, University of Bergen, Norway Joanna Wieclaw, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark AIMS AND SCOPE Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting peer-reviewed papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational and environmental health, and stress and safety management. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews, case notes, research notes and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organizations. Contents of Volume 17 2003 NUMBER | JANUARY—MARCH Learning new behaviour patterns: a longitudinal test of Karasek’s active learning hyYpI othesis among Dutch teachers Toon W. Taris, Michiel A. ]. Kompier, Annet H. De Lange, Wilmar B. Schaufeli and PaulJ . G. Schreurs Perceptions of safety climate at different employment levels Job stressors, coping, and psychological distress among Japanese employees: interplay between active and non-active coping Akihito Shimazu and Shoutarou Kosugi Employee strain and job satisfaction related to an implementation of quality in a public service organization: a longitudinal study Cliristian Korunka, Dieter Scharitzer, Pascale Carayon and FrancAois Sainfort Patterns of working and living conditions: a holistic, multivariate approach to occupational health studies Annika Harenstam, Lena Karlqvist, Lennart Bodin, Gun Nise, Patrik Scheele and the Moa Research Group Psychosocial work environment and psychosomatic health of nurses in Hungary Bettina F. Piko NUMBER 2 APRIL—JUNI Rail safety in Britain: an occupational health psychology perspective Tom Cox, Amanda Griffiths and Jonathan Houdmont Staying well or burning out at work: work characteristics and personal resources as long-term predictors Raija Kalimo, Krista Pahkin, Pertti Mutanen and Salla Toppinen- Tanner The impact of rest breaks upIo n accident risk, fatigue and Ip erformance: a review Philip Tucker Business travel stress: a model, propositions and managerial implications Jolin M. Ivancevich, Robert Konopaske and Richard S. Defrank Relations between stressors and group perceptions: main and mediating effects Steve M. Jex and Jeffrey L. Thomias Post-trauma symptoms in health workers following physical and verbal aggression Belinda R. Walsh and Emma Clarke Work-related violence as a predictor of fatigue: A 5-year follow-up of the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study Annie Hogh, Vilhelm Borg and Kim L. Mikkelsen NUMBER 3 JULY-SEPTEMBER Social antecedents of the role stress and career-enhancing strategies of newcomers to organizations: A longitudinal study Maria Jesus Bravo, Jose Maria Peiro, Isabel Rodriguez and William T. Whitely Modelling relationships between job stressors and injury and near-miss outcomes for construction labourers Linda M. Goldenhar, LarryJ . Williams and Naomi G. Swanson The relationship of work stressors, coping and social support to psychological symptoms among female secretarial employees David L. Snow, Suzanne C. Swan, Chitra Raghavan, Christian M. Connell and Ilene Klein Associations between repetitive work and endocrinological indicators of stress Ase Marie Hansen, Anette Kaergaard, Johan Hviid Andersen and Bo Netterstrom A preliminary investigation of post-traumatic stress symptoms among firefighters Cheryl Haslam and Krissie Mallon NUMBER 4 OCTOBER— DECEMBER Determinants of perceived occupational stress among Chinese offshore oil workers Wei-Qing Chen, Tze-Wai Wong, Tak-Sun Yu, Yan-Zu Lin and Cary L. Cooper Developing a factor model of coal miners’ attributions on risk-taking at work Andrew Weyman, David D. Clarke and Tom Cox 12-h workdays: current knowledge and future directions Salaheddine Bendak Effects of resident-oriented care on job characteristics of nursing caregivers Afke J. M. B. Berkhout, Nicolle P. G. Boumans, Frans] . N. Nijhiuis, Gerard P. J]. Van Breukelen and Huda Huijer Abu-Saad BeAFny