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The relationship between simplified jobs and mental health: A replication study
Author(s) -
Clegg Chris,
Wall Toby
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1990.tb00530.x
Subject(s) - replication (statistics) , mental health , psychology , cognition , work (physics) , social psychology , applied psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , mechanical engineering , virology , engineering
This paper replicates an earlier study testing the hypothesis that relatively poor mental health is associated with simplified jobs, but only for those employees who see their work as not using their skills, and who at the same time report high levels of cognitive failure. The hypothesis is confirmed in two separate samples.