A large body of literature demonstrates that exposure to major adverse events such as natural disasters affects physical and mental health. Less is known about health consequences of long- term exposure to smaller, recurring shocks such as mining-induced earthquakes. Leveraging data from the...

Disasters adversely affect mental well-being. However, little is known about their causal effects on diagnosed psychological disorders or the mediating role of earnings. This study uses a Synthetic Difference-in-Differences approach (SDID) to examine Cyclone Gabrielle’s impact on workers’...

We examine the impact of intensive social media use on puberty timing, particularly earlier menarche in girls. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a nationally representative longitudinal dataset tracking around 19,000 children in the UK, we analyse how digital engagement...

The aim of this study is to examine the stress and pressure experienced by individuals working in human resources, focusing on the unique challenges that this work entails. This research is therefore guided by the question: what are the characteristics of work-related stress and burnout for...

This study investigates the moderating effects of teamwork and employee wellbeing policies on the relationship between workplace stress and burnout within the Australian Public Service (APS). Using data from a large-scale cross-sectional survey conducted in 2022, we examine how both strong team...

Purpose: This research explores effective managerial practices to reduce brain drain in tourism by promoting moral values such as compassion and empathy. It investigates how a supportive work environment can decrease employee stress, improve job satisfaction and retain skilled professionals....

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to shift how to they engage in work and consumption behaviors. This study examines the remote working conditions that influence employee stress and whether work related stress influenced consumer-based coping behaviors in the height of the pandemic. Data...

It is well-known that failing to achieve key organizational goals may pressure managers to commit fraud, but can it be a facilitating factor in cartel formation as well? The purpose of this study is to understand if firms known to have been in a cartel were under financial stress in the period...

Self-managing organizations, characterized by flat hierarchies and decentralized power, are expected to empower and engage employees. In contrast, critics argue that a lack of structure could cause confusion and increased stress and burnout. However, neither assumption has been quantitatively...

Purpose - A paternalistic employer is one that looks down on its employees and expects them to do everything their way. On the other hand, the job demand-resource (JD-R) model, developed by Arnold Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti, has been widely used in the last decade to characterize the...

Using Italian data on the universe of mandatory tests conducted in a low-stakes setting without air conditioning, we investigate the effect of temperature on student performance, with a focus on how manipulation distorts causal estimates of temperature effects on test scores. While high...

Heat's impact on economic growth and aggregate productivity is well-established, but while individual impairments are well-understood as mechanisms, the role of interpersonal dynamics remain unexplored despite the growing prevalence of team-based occupations. In our experiment, programmers were...

Financial stress (FS) has become a critical issue influencing financial behavior (FB), particularly in the context of Indonesia's evolving financial environment. This study examines the effects of current money management stress (CMMS) and expected future financial security (EFFS) on FS and its...

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. requires CFP® professionals to identify and respond to a client's attitudes, behaviors, and situations that impact decision-making, the client-planner relationship, and a client's financial well-being. This practice requirement...

Rather than focusing on performance as the ultimate outcome in organizational and vocational research, it has been argued that psychological health represents a far more relevant outcome given its pervasive impact on employee's lives, including their work performance. This longitudinal study...

This study examines the impact of emotional exhaustion on business performance, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this objective, data were collected from business owners in the developing economy of Ecuador. The research specifically explores how...

This research examines how employees' locus of control moderates the relationships between role conflict, role ambiguity, and intention to quit when assessing the mediation effects of counterproductive work behaviour and work engagement. A quantitative method (survey) was used for this study,...

Leveraging nationally representative data from the 2011-2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study (CLHLS), this study examines the impact of spousal death on long-term care (LTC) needs among Chinese older adults aged 60 and above. Our results show that spousal bereavement significantly...

Work engagement is defined as a positive and fulfilling workrelated state of mind, characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. High levels of engagement are associated with improved organizational functioning and a stronger sense of belonging among employees. Objective: This study,...

This study advances research on the nexus of business insolvency and entrepreneurs' well-being. We broadly build upon the Conservation of Resources Theory (COR) and explore the severity of the impact of firm insolvency on subjective well-being, stress hormones, and physiological recovery. To...

Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy designed to maximize...

The impact of work engagement and burnout on medical activities, physicians' performance, and quality of care has gained interest over the last decades. However, the effect of demographics, job-related, and organizational variables on burnout and work engagement in young endocrinologists has not...

Background. In hospitals, decisions are often made under time pressure. There is, however, little evidence on how time pressure affects the quality of treatment and the documentation behavior of physicians. Setting. We implemented a controlled laboratory experiment with a healthcare framing in...

Objective: There is growing interest in analyzing whether ethical climates influence the emotional states of organizational members. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between a benevolent ethical climate, emotional exhaustion, and...