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Bakker, A. B., Schaufeli, W. B., Leiter, M. P., & Taris, T. W. (2008). Work engagement: An emerging concept in occupational health psychology. Work & Stress, 22(3), 187-200
Belkic, K. L., Landsbergis, P. A., Schnall, P. L., & Baker, D. (2004). Is job strain a major source of cardiovascular disease risk? Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 85-128
Bicknell, M. and Liefooghe, Andreas (2010) Enjoy your stress: using Lacan to enrich transactional models of stress. Organization 17 (3), pp. 317-330
Burton, C and King, L. (2004) The health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 150–163
CIPD (2016): Growing the health and well-being agenda: from first steps to full potential. CIPD Policy Report.
Cox, T., Griffiths, A., & Rial Gonzalez, E. (2000) Research on work-related stress. Luxembourg: Office of the Official Publications of the European Communities.
Demerouti, E. (2014). Design your own job through job crafting. European Psychologist
Häusser, J. A., Mojzisch, A., Niesel, M., & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2010). Ten years on: A review of recent research on the Job demand–control (-Support) model and psychological well-being. Work & Stress, 24(1), 1-35.
Leka, S. & Jain, A. (2010). Health impact of psychosocial hazards at work: An overview. Geneva: World Health Organization.
McDowall, A. & Lindsay, A. (2014). Work-life Balance in the Police: The Development of a Work-Life Balance Self-management Competency Framework. Journal of Business and Psychology, 29(3), 387-411
McDowall, A. & Kinman, G. (2017). The new nowhere land? A research and practice agenda for the “always on” culture Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance. 4(3)
Moore, P., Piwek, L. (2017) "Regulating wellbeing in the brave new quantified workplace", Employee Relations, 39, 3, pp.308-316
Nicolas, H. & McDowall, A. (2012). When work keeps us apart: a thematic analysis of the experience of business travellers. Community, Work and Family, 15(3), 335-355
Nicholson, N et al (2020) Imagining a positive future reduces cortisol response to awakening and reactivity to acute stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 116:104677
Noblet, A. & LaMontagne, A. (2006). The role of workplace health promotion in addressing job stress, Health Promotion International, 21, 346-353
Schlachter, S., McDowall, A., Cropley, M. and Inceoglu, I. (2017). Voluntary Work-Related Technology Use during Non-Work Time: A Narrative Synthesis of Empirical Research and Research Agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews.
Semmer, N. (2006). Job stress interventions and the organization of work. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health, 32, 515–27
Shockley, K. M., Shen, W., DeNunzio, M. M., Arvan, M. L., & Knudsen, E. A. (2017). Disentangling the Relationship Between Gender and Work–Family Conflict: An Integration of Theoretical Perspectives Using Meta-Analytic Methods. Journal of Applied Psychology
Siegrist, J. (1996). Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1(1), 27
Siegrist, J., & Rödel, A. (2006). Work stress and health risk behavior. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 473-481