Authors' response

• Published in: Journal of behavioral medicine Vol. 39; no. 2; p. 367
• Main Authors: Girardi, Damiano, Falco, Alessandra, De Carlo, Alessandro, Benevene, Paula, Comar, Manola, Tongiorgi, Enrico, Bartolucci, Giovanni Battista
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Nature B.V 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Biomarkers; Maternal & child health; Occupational stress; Science; Studies; New York; United States > US; Italy
• ISSN: 0160-7715; 1573-3521
• DOI: 10.1007/s10865-015-9706-6

[...]researchers face considerable costs, from both a time/logistic and economic standpoint, in order to enroll study participants, collect data, and analyze blood samples. [...]studies necessarily focus on simple models, whereas bigger samples are needed, in order to investigate more complex relationships (e.g., multiple mediators models). [...]as pointed out in previous studies, high-NA individuals may simply respond negatively to self-report measures of job stressors, such as ICW (i.e., NA may affect the measure of ICW, rather than the construct itself; Williams et al., 1996). [...]in order to reduce possible biases, the relationship between NA and ICW was estimated using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with latent variables, thus controlling for measurement error. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10865-015-9705-7 Web End =10.1007/s10865- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10865-015-9705-7 Web End =015-9705-7 . & Damiano Girardi damiano.girardi@gmail.com 1 FISPPA Section of Applied Psychology, University ofPadova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131 Padua, Italy 2 Human Science Department, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy 3 Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, Triest, Italy 4 Medical Science Department, University of Trieste, Triest, Italy 5 Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Triest, Italy 6 Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy 123 368 J Behav Med (2016) 39:367368 strain (Sonnentag & Fritz, 2015). [...]in our opinion, future studies should investigate the mechanisms underlying the interaction between job stressors (such as ICW), specic stressful life events, and biomarkers of stress, rather than simply controlling for non-occupational stress in work-related stress research.