Facets of Job Effort in Bus Driver Health: Deconstructing "Effort" in the Effort-Reward Imbalance Model

This article reports on a study undertaken to test the relative value of developing and using job-specific facets of effort to better understand job strain in urban bus driving. The study tested these facets of effort using J. Siegrist's (1996) effort-reward imbalance (ERI) theory. The interactive effects of the ERI model are further investigated to address the lack of research into the relationships of the model's constructs. The authors used focus groups and published papers to create a measure of bus driver effort. This measure was completed by 186 male bus drivers in the United Kingdom, as part of a questionnaire study. The results were factor-analyzed to create 4 facets of effort, which demonstrated additional variance in predicting strain, above and beyond J. Siegrist's original effort construct. One of these facets, workload and fatigue, was observed to be a particularly important contributor to strain. Poorer levels of reward and higher levels of overcommitment were strong main predictors of job strain.

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• Authors:
  • Tse, John L M
  • Flin, Rhona
  • Mearns, Kathryn
• Publication Date: 2007-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 48-62
• Serial:
  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Educational Publishing Foundation
  • ISSN: 1076-8998

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Occupational safety; Psychological aspects; Reliability; Stress (Physiology); Stress (Psychology); Validity
• Identifier Terms: Effort-Reward Imbalance Theory
• Uncontrolled Terms: Work load
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01052122
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 29 2007 7:37AM