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Robert Karasek is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within health professions, with a specialized interest in general health professions and organizational behavior and human resource management as subfields.

The topics that Robert Karasek's work addresses include:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Healthcare Professionals' Stress and Burnout

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, mostly concentrating on the Job Content Questionnaire 2.0 (JCQ 2.0) and related theoretical frameworks. The publications include:

  • "International Empirical Validation and Value Added of the Multilevel Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0," published in 2025 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The Cross-Sectional Association of Scales from the Job Content Questionnaire 2 (JCQ 2.0) with Burnout and Affective Commitment Among German Employees," published in 2025 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The Multi-level Job Content Questionnaire 2.0 (JCQ 2.0) and the Associationalist Demand-Control (ADC) Theory for a Sustainable Global Economy," published in 2025 in Preprints.org
  • "The Structure of Demand, Control, and Stability-Support Underlying the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0-An Innovative Tool for Assessing Multilevel Work Characteristics," published in 2025 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "An International Comparative Reliability and Concurrent Validity Assessment of the Multi-Level Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0," published in 2025 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Robert Karasek frequently collaborates with a group of researchers whose work overlaps in similar domains. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Maren Formazin
  • Maureen F. Dollard
  • BongKyoo Choi
  • I.L.D. Houtman
  • Wilfred Agbenyikey

The researcher has published predominantly in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, contributing to four recent papers there, with one publication appearing in Preprints.org. Their focus on the Job Content Questionnaire and demand-control theoretical models positions their work at the intersection of occupational health, organizational psychology, and global workforce sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign

    Robert A. Karasek

  • Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction Of Working Life

    Robert Karasek;Töres Theorell

  • The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics.

    Robert Karasek;Chantal Brisson;Norito Kawakami;Irene Houtman

  • Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease : a prospective study of Swedish men

    R Karasek;D Baker;F Marxer;A Ahlbom

  • Current issues relating to psychosocial job strain and cardiovascular disease research.

    Töres Theorell;Robert A. Karasek

  • Job characteristics in relation to the prevalence of myocardial infarction in the US Health Examination Survey (HES) and the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES).

    R A Karasek;T Theorell;J E Schwartz;P L Schnall

  • Job Content Questionnaire.

    R. Karasek

  • The relationship between 'job strain,' workplace diastolic blood pressure, and left ventricular mass index. Results of a case-control study.

    Peter L. Schnall;Carl Pieper;Joseph E. Schwartz;Robert A. Karasek

  • Coworker and Supervisor support as moderators of associations between task characteristics and mental strain

    Robert A. Karasek;Konstantinos P. Triantis;Sohail S. Chaudhry

  • stress, productivity, and the reconstruction of working life

    R. Karasek

  • Lower health risk with increased job control among white collar workers

    Robert Karasek

  • Myocardial infarction risk and psychosocial work environment: an analysis of the male Swedish working force

    L. Alfredsson;R. Karasek;T. Theorell

  • Demand/control model : a social, emotional, and physiological approach to stress risk and active behaviour development

    R. Karasek

  • Work and non‐work correlates of illness and behaviour in male and female Swedish white collar workers

    Robert Karasek;Bertil Gardell;Jan Lindell

  • Validity and reliability of the job content questionnaire in formal and informal jobs in Brazil

    Tânia Maria de Araújo;Robert Karasek

  • OCCUPATIONAL STRAIN AND THE INCIDENCE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

    Dwayne M. Reed;Andrea Z. Lacroix;Robert A Karasek;Dewolfe Miller

  • THE RELATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF WORK WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE RISK FACTORS: A META-ANALYSIS OF FIVE UNITED STATES DATA BASES

    Carl Pieper;Andrea Z. Lacroix;Robert A Karasek

  • Job strain and autonomic indices of cardiovascular disease risk

    Sean M. Collins;Robert A. Karasek;Kevin Costas

  • Sedentary work, low physical job demand, and obesity in US workers.

    BongKyoo Choi;Peter L. Schnall;Haiou Yang;Marnie Dobson

  • Physiology of Stress and Regeneration in Job Related Cardiovascular Illness

    Robert A. Karasek;R. Scott Russell;Tores Theorell M.D.

  • "Current issues relating to psychosocial job strain and cardiovascular disease research": Correction to Theorell and Karasek (1996).

    Töres Theorell;Robert A. Karasek

Frequent Co-Authors

Töres Theorell
Töres Theorell Karolinska Institute
Annie Hogh
Annie Hogh University of Copenhagen
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Maureen F. Dollard
Maureen F. Dollard University of South Australia

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