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Article: Mental health and work performance: results of a longitudinal field study.
- Article from:
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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Dysfunctional mental health represents a serious cost for industry in terms of both human and financial maladaptive consequences (Cooper & Marshall, 1976). For instance, depression, loss of self-esteem, hypertension, alcoholism and drug consumption have all been shown to be related to dysfunctional mental health (Ivancevich & Matteson, 1980).
Since much research has examined mental health as a dependent variable (Jamal & Mitchell, 1980), considerable attention has been devoted to identifying the determinants of employee mental health (Ostell & Divers, 1987; Warr, 1990). For instance, the seminal work of Kornhauser (1965) recognized that the determinants of mental ...