Job Demand Control Model

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The job demands-resources model or demand-control model ( English job demand-control model , also known as English job strain model 1979) of the American sociologist Robert Karasek provide an assessment of stress and strain factors in the work environment ( work intensity ) as well as health promotion in the world of work. Karasek put two important parameters for determining these factors into the room: the work requirements ( English Job Demands ) and the scope for action or autonomy at the workplace ( English Job Decision Latitude ). Both can be present in both low and high levels. It is assumed that heavy loads arise in the workplace when the work demands are high, but the worker has only limited room for maneuver due to a lack of autonomy .

Karasek assumes that high work demands lead to a state with strong action energy ( English motivational push ). The extent to which the worker can now make decisions modulates or transforms the release of the resulting energy ( work motivation ). If, however, no action can be taken due to a lack of autonomy, the action energy turns into stress symptoms as mental strain . B. Can promote depression.

The model was expanded in 1988 by Johnson and Hall to the Job Demand Control Support (JDCS) model , according to which a lack of social support and isolation can further increase the extent of the psychological risk or social support can alleviate the mental strain .

See also

literature

  • PJD Drenth, H. Thierry, CJ De Wolff: A Handbook Of Work And Organizational Psychology: Work Psychology. Psychology Press, 2001, ISBN 0-86377-523-3 , pp. 153ff ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert A. Karasek Jr .: Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign. In: Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 24, No. 2, June, 1979, pp. 285-308 doi: 10.2307 / 2392498 , JSTOR 2392498
  2. ^ Birgit Aust: Health promotion in the world of work. LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4571-0 , p. 80. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Margot van der Doef, Stan Maes: The Job Demand-Control (-Support) Model and psychological well-being: A review of 20 years of empirical research. In: Work & Stress. 13, 1999, pp. 87-114, doi: 10.1080 / 026783799296084 .
  4. ↑ Keis Ohtsuka: Review of the Job Demand-Control and Job Demand-Control-Support models: Elusive moderating predictor effects and cultural implications. In: Southeast Asia Psychology Journal. Vol 1, 2012, pp. 10-21.
  5. ↑ J. Ruck Biel: Health, Labor and cohesion . Freiburg 2013, p. 93-122 .
  6. ^ Toon W. Taris: Bricks without clay: On urban myths in occupational health psychology . In: Work & Stress . Vol. 20, Iss. 2. 2006, p. 99-104 , doi : 10.1080 / 02678370600893410 .