U.S.-Sweden Cooperative Research: Characteristics of the Work Environment Affecting Occupational Stress

该奖项将支持加州大学欧文分校的Gary Evans博士和瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学心理学系的Gunn Johansson教授之间的合作研究。该项目的目标是确定影响职业压力和心血管疾病病因的工作环境特征。提出的具体研究将评估斯德哥尔摩公共交通区正在进行的环境和工作重新设计实验。干预措施旨在为巴士司机减轻交通挤塞，并改善乘客服务。采用非等效对照组的前后准实验设计对实验干预进行评价。对职业压力的多方法评估将包括心理生理指标、自我报告和对驾驶员在工作时的训练观察。将对公共汽车驾驶环境的生理和心理进行详细评估。这次合作汇集了一位在心理社会工作特征影响的心理生理测量方面经验丰富的瑞典工作心理学家，以及一位在压力研究和定量方法方面具有专业知识的环境心理学家。

This award will support collaborative research between Dr. Gary Evans, University of California, Irvine and Professor Gunn Johansson, Department of Psychology, University of Stockholm, Sweden. The objective of the project is to determine characteristics of the work environment that affect occupational stress and the etiology of cardiovascular disease. The specific research proposed will evaluate an experiment in environmental and job re-design being conducted by the Stockholm Public Transit District. The intervention aims to reduce traffic congestion for bus drivers and improve passenger service. A before/after quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group will evaluate the experimental intervention. Multi-methodological assessments of occupational stress will include psychophysiological indices, self-reports and trained observations of drivers while on the job. Detailed assessments of the physical and psychosocial bus driving environment will be carried out. This collaboration brings together a Swedish work psychologist experienced in psychophysiological measurements of the impacts of psychosocial work characteristics, with the US investigator, who is an environmental psychologist with expertise in stress research and quantitative methods.