t'ilsudskicgo 13, 31 -I 10 C racow , Poland 'ThC-rc is a tendency in studies concerning individual difercnccs in shiftwork tolerance to cin.ilyse the nioder.iting c f l h of individual factors separately as if they acted independently. T h e aim oithis study W'I\ t o examine the interactive c f c c t o f individual factors (i.c. morningncss. flexibility, I.ingtiidity, iieurtmcisiii, cstrovcrsion) on nurses' health and sleep. A hundred fcmalc iiiirscs (mean ~g e 25.9 year\, S1) = 3.7 years) working a 2 x 12-11 shift system were choscn from a larger study conducted .inlong Intcnsivc Care Unit statf. All subjects coniplctcd the Standard Shiftwork Index. Multiple rcgrcshiuii .iii.iIyscF show th.it interactions o f neuroticism and other Factors (langtiidity. morningncss) prcdict the niJjority of hcalth and ~l c c p complaints rather than ncuroticism itself. Correlation analyses revealed th.it thc interaction of neuroticism and languidity correlates higher with sonic indicec of inipaii-cd 1ic.ilth m d sleep disturbances than when these factors are taken separately. T h e contribution of flexibility together with cxtrovcrsion in interactions with ncuroticisni, and with ncuroticisni ~n d l.ingiiidity wcaken the relations of languidity and neuroticism with health a n d sleep indict\. Tlic rcsiilts show that sonic individual features tend to strengthen o r cotinteract one another in rL~l.ition t o syniptoiiis of shiftwork intolerance.
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