Health habits,type A behaviour and job burnout |
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| Authors: | Kenneth M Nowack |
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| Institution: | Office of Residential Life , University of California at Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This study examined the effects of health habits and type A behaviour on psychological health outcomes in the face of daily life stress. Measures of the experience of life stress, health habits, type A behaviour, job burnout and psychological distress were collected for 146 employees at the UCLA Medical Centre. Analyses of covariance revealed that health habits contributed significant main effects to psychological distress but not job burnout. Type A behaviour, but not life stress or health habits, directly affected both job burnout and psychological distress. The implications of the research for employee health programmes are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | health habits job burnout type A behaviour life stress psychological distress |
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