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Workplace Social Support and Ambulatory Cardiovascular Activity in New York City Traffic Agents

From St. John’s University (W.A.K., E.B.), Jamaica, New York; and State University of New York (J.S.), Stony Brook, New York.

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Mean levels of workday SBP for high- and low-support groups by gender and adjusted for age, BMI, location, and posture. Agents whose scores were in the upper third of the immediate supervisor distribution were placed in a high supervisor support group, and agents who scored in the bottom third of the distribution were placed in the low supervisor support group. Those with intermediate support were excluded from this graph.