ABSTRACT
Work and health psychology, a young discipline that has attracted considerable interest over the past decade, originally developed as an offshoot of clinical psychology and industrial and organizational psychology. The rise to prominence of this discipline in the mid-1980s can be at least partly attributed to the rapid increase in industrial absenteeism, and the wastage and early retirement that took place during those years—the results of an organizational revolution that were accentuated by the radical changes that took place in business management.
