Study title

Characterization of job situation. questions on health and use of semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol. Topics: information on occupation and employment; arrangement of working hours with or without changing shifts; work on an assembly line; regular weekly working hours; work on Sunadys and holidays as well as on Saturdays; being on stand-by on weekends; short time work; frequency of overtime and actual total working hours per week; exercise of side jobs and taking care of occupational matters in leisure time; commuting time to work; wage or salary recipient; bonuses and piecework pay; characterization of actual and subjectively perceived stress at work; personal danger of accident at work as well as possibility of endangering others; possibility of causing greater property damage; frequency of personal work accidents; personal responsibility at work (scale); type and frequency of work supervision by others; perceived stress from being supervised; characterization of necessary psychological and social abilities at work; holding management positions and extent of span of control; frequency of work conflicts; interest in accepting additional responsibility; frequency and reason for change of job; health reasons for a change of job; duration of company employment; year of last change of occupation; limited fitness for work for health reasons; frequency and length of personal unemployment in the last 10 years; frequency of lay-offs in the company and perceived job security; judgement on development of professional career up to now and in the future; thoughts of change of job; work satisfaction (scale); changes of one´s own job situation in the last 3 years; possibilities to influence one´s own pace at work as well as arranging of work breaks or pauses; psychological effects of work on personal life; satisfaction with personal leisure time and one´s own organization of leisure time; preferred leisure activities; frequency of contact with friends and relatives;...