Nicola Jacobshagen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that many situations that were instrumental in descriptive terms were emotional in terms of meaning; the reverse occurred very seldom, whereas instrumental behaviors of medical professionals were largely instrumental in meaning as well.

TL;DR: The present study examined the psychometric characteristics of a “core-set” of six individual questions (on pain, function, symptom-specific well-being, work disability, social disability and satisfaction) for use in low back pain (LBP) outcome assessment and recommends the widespread and consistent use of the core-set items and their composite score index to promote standardisation of outcome measurements.

TL;DR: It is concluded that illegitimate tasks represent an aspect of job design that deserves more attention, both in research and in decisions about task assignments, beyond the effects of other predictors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two studies showing that illegitimate tasks relate to counterproductive work behavior, controlling for effort-reward imbalance in Study 1, for personality (conscientiousness and agreeableness) and organizational justice in Study 2.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the effect of time pressure (a prototypical challenge stressor) on a general well-being variable (positive attitude towards life; PAL) and found that the negative and the positive effects of challenge stressors may refer to wellbeing.