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Overview

David M. DeJoy is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on health professions, with significant contributions in occupational health and safety domains.

The main fields of study for David M. DeJoy include Health Professions, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Occupational Therapy, General Health Professions, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Social Psychology.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics connected to workplace and health-related issues including:

  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Occupational Health and Performance
  • Risk and Safety Analysis
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Agriculture and Farm Safety
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David M. DeJoy include:

  • Safety specific transformational leadership, safety motivation and personal protective equipment use among firefighters, 2020, Safety Science
  • Stress, burnout and diminished safety behaviors: An argument for Total Worker Health® approaches in the fire service, 2020, Journal of Safety Research
  • Firefighter Overexertion: A Continuing Problem Found in an Analysis of Non-Fatal Injury Among Career Firefighters, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Occupational Stress and Burnout in the Fire Service: Examining the Complex Role and Impact of Sleep Health, 2021, Behavior Modification
  • Translating CDSMP to the Workplace: Results of the Live Healthy Work Healthy Program, 2020, American Journal of Health Promotion

Their frequent coauthors include Todd D. Smith, Mari-Amanda Dyal, Charmaine Mullins-Jaime, and Nicholas J. Haynes.

David M. DeJoy's work is often published in journals such as Journal of Safety Research, Safety Science, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Behavior Modification, and Journal of Applied Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Work characteristics and employee health and well-being: Test of a model of healthy work organization.

    Mark G. Wilson;David M. Dejoy;Robert J. Vandenberg;Hettie A. Richardson

  • Creating safer workplaces: assessing the determinants and role of safety climate.

    David M. DeJoy;Bryan S. Schaffer;Murray G. A. Wilson;Robert J. Vandenberg

  • AN EXAMINATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT RISK PERCEPTION

    David M. DeJoy

  • THE OPTIMISM BIAS AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENT RISK PERCEPTION

    David M. DeJoy

  • Behavior change versus culture change: Divergent approaches to managing workplace safety

    David M. DeJoy

  • Warnings and Risk Communication

    Michael S. Wogalter;David M. DeJoy;Kenneth R. Laughery

  • Individual reactions to high involvement work processes: investigating the role of empowerment and perceived organizational support.

    Marcus M. Butts;Robert J. Vandenberg;David M. DeJoy;Bryan S. Schaffer

  • Effects of management communication, opportunity for learning, and work schedule flexibility on organizational commitment☆

    Thomas W.H. Ng;Marcus M. Butts;Robert J. Vandenberg;David M. DeJoy

  • Assessment of relationships between work stress, work-family conflict, burnout and firefighter safety behavior outcomes

    Todd D. Smith;Kevin Hughes;David M. DeJoy;Mari-Amanda Dyal

  • Theoretical models of health behavior and workplace self-protective behavior

    David M. DeJoy

  • Managing safety in the workplace: An attribution theory analysis and model

    David M. DeJoy

  • An Experimental Study of Factors Influencing the Acceptability of Dating Violence

    Teresa M. Bethke;David M. DeJOY

  • Move to Improve: a randomized workplace trial to increase physical activity.

    Rod K. Dishman;David M. DeJoy;Mark G. Wilson;Robert J. Vandenberg

  • A multi-worksite analysis of the relationships among body mass index, medical utilization, and worker productivity.

    Ron Z. Goetzel;Teresa B. Gibson;Meghan E. Short;Bong Chul Chu

  • Making work safer: testing a model of social exchange and safety management.

    David M. DeJoy;Lindsay J. Della;Robert J. Vandenberg;Mark G. Wilson

  • Safety-specific transformational and passive leadership influences on firefighter safety climate perceptions and safety behavior outcomes

    Todd D. Smith;Franklin Eldridge;David M. DeJoy

  • Assessing the impact of healthy work organization intervention

    David M. DeJoy;Mark G. Wilson;Robert J. Vandenberg;Allison L. McGrath-Higgins

  • Organizational health promotion: broadening the horizon of workplace health promotion.

    David M. DeJoy;Mark G. Wilson

  • Occupational injury in America: An analysis of risk factors using data from the General Social Survey (GSS).

    Todd D. Smith;David M. DeJoy

  • Behavioral-diagnostic analysis of compliance with universal precautions among nurses.

    David M. DeJoy;Cynthia A. Searcy;Lawrence R. Murphy;Robyn R. M. Gershon

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Vandenberg
Robert J. Vandenberg University of Georgia
Robyn R.M. Gershon
Robyn R.M. Gershon New York University
Charles E. Lance
Charles E. Lance University of the Western Cape
Jos A. Bosch
Jos A. Bosch University of Amsterdam
Marcia G. Ory
Marcia G. Ory Texas A&M University
Michael S. Wogalter
Michael S. Wogalter North Carolina State University
Thomas W. H. Ng
Thomas W. H. Ng University of Hong Kong
Daniel C. Feldman
Daniel C. Feldman University of Georgia

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