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Expectancies, Socioeconomic Status, and Self-Rated Health: Use of the Simplified TOMCATS Questionnaire

Odeen, Magnus; Westerlund, Hugo; Theorell, Töres; Leineweber, Constance; Eriksen, Hege Randi; Ursin, Holger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-06)

Background: Coping has traditionally been measured with inventories containing many items meant to identify specific coping strategies. An alternative is to develop a shorter inventory that focusses on coping expectancies ...
Subjective health complaints and self-rated health: are expectancies more important than socioeconomic status and workload?

Ree, Eline; Odeen, Magnus; Eriksen, Hege Randi; Indahl, Aage; Ihlebæk, Camilla; Hetland, Jørn; Harris, Anette (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)

Background The associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome ...