Emotional exhaustion and mental health problems among employees doing "people work": the impact of job demands, job resources and family-to-work conflict.

Objective: This study investigates the relationship between four job characteristics and family-to-work conflict on emotional exhaustion and mental health problems.

Methods: Multiple regression analyses were performed using data from 1,008 mental health care employees. Separate regression analyses were computed for high and low patient interaction jobs.

Bad but bold: Ambivalent attitudes toward men predict gender inequality in 16 nations.

A 16-nation study involving 8,360 participants revealed that hostile and benevolent attitudes toward men, assessed by the Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory (P. Click & S.T.

Sex and leadership styles: a meta-analysis of research published in the 1990s.

Empirical research on sex differences in leadership styles, published between 1987 and 2000 in peer-reviewed journals, is reviewed by means of a meta-analysis. The leadership styles examined are interpersonal, task-oriented, democratic versus autocratic, and transformational and transactional leadership. Analysis showed that evidence for sex differences in leadership behavior is mixed, demonstrating that women tend to use more democratic and transformational leadership styles than men do, whereas no sex differences are found on the other leadership styles.