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Table 2 High-level categories of work environment risk factors and stress outcomes and the corresponding frequencies of measurements of these variables in the included studies (see Tables A1 and A2 in online supplemental material for a complete list of these measures)

From: Work environment risk factors causing day-to-day stress in occupational settings: a systematic review

Category

Frequency

(a) Work environment risk factors.

Work intensity

25

Social environment

25

Various

18

Working time quality

10

Skills and discretion

10

Occupation-specific (medicine and health care)

6

Commuting from and to the workplace

4

Prospects

3

Total

101

(b) Stress outcomes.

Affective response

44

Physiological response

14

Appraisal

5

Behavioural response

4

Motivational response

4

Cognitive outcome

3

Health outcome

2

Total

76

  1. Note that an individual study can include measures of multiple categories