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Psychological effects of occupational exposure to various chemical agents
Author(s) -
Lindström Kari
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597708247380
Subject(s) - psychology , occupational exposure , humanities , medicine , environmental health , philosophy
Research on the psychological effects of occupational exposure to various chemical agents began at the Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki in the last half of the 1950′s. At first workers occupationally exposed to carbon disulfide in a rayon fiber factory were clinically examined. These workers were submitted to psychological testing because they complained of numerous subjective psychological symptoms. Since then the behavioral effects of occupational exposure to various common solvents and lead have been studied with psychological methods. The earlier projects were either clinical or epidemiologic studies, but now experimental studies with animals have also begun. In all these investigations one of the main objectives has been to develop and find methods sensitive and specific enough to detect adverse behavioral effects.