Psychosocial working conditions and active leisure-time physical activity in middle-aged us workers

Choi, BongKyoo; Schnall, Peter L.; Yang, Haiou; Dobson, Marnie; Landsbergis, Paul; Israël, L; Karasek, Robert; Baker, Dean

doi:10.2478/v10001-010-0029-0

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“…Several studies have claimed that job demands, job resources, and job strain are associated with physical activity among employees, via psychological distress. 19,[39][40][41] Therefore, targeting job-related and health-improving factors could be effective for improving physical activity among employees.…”

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The Moderating Effect of Health-Improving Workplace Environment on Promoting Physical Activity in White-Collar Employees

Watanabe

Otsuka

Shimazu

et al. 2016

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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The Moderating Effect of Health-Improving Workplace Environment on Promoting Physical Activity in White-Collar Employees

Watanabe

Otsuka

Shimazu

et al. 2016

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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“…Second, we did not consider other occupational factors such as job stress and long working hours. There are many studies dealing with the association between psychosocial work environments and cardiovascular disease risk factors [18][19][20] . Especially, long working hours is still prevalent in Korea, so, we should notice this issue.…”

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Disparities of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence by Age, Gender and Occupation among Korean Adult Workers

Myong

Kim

Jung-Choi³

et al. 2012

Ind Health

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Occupation can influence the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Age and gender could interact with the association between occupation and metabolic syndrome. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among the Korean working population and determine whether the prevalence differed according to occupation, age and gender. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Korean adults using the Third Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES III). The analysis included 3,288 workers over 19 yr old. The prevalence odds ratios (PORs) of metabolic syndrome among representative types of occupations were estimated after stratification for age and gender by logistic regression. Female manual workers had a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome than female non-manual workers among those younger than age 50 (POR=1.95, 95%CI=1.12-3.40). However, female manual workers aged 50 and older had a lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than female non-manual workers (POR=0.36, 95%CI=0.22-0.59). Manual occupations can be a risk factor for metabolic syndrome, but this correlation is limited to younger female workers. The effects of occupation on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome were different between older and younger workers, which could be due to longitudinal transition of socio-cultural structure.

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“…If researchers are interested in more sensitive methods for creating comparable high job strain groups between the 2 questionnaires, we continuously recommend the tertile-or quartile-based job strain definitions because their greater sensitivities than the median-based job strain definition were demonstrated [9], providing for no significant changes in specificities. The quartile-based job strain definition was also more strongly correlated with leisure-time physical activity than the median-based job strain definition [47].…”

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Validity test of the IPD-Work consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between Job Content Questionnaire and Demand-Control Questionnaire

Choi¹,

Ko²,

Östergren³

2015

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: This study aims to test the validity of the IPD-Work Consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and the Demand-Control Questionnaire (DCQ). Material and Methods: A random population sample (N = 682) of all middle-aged Malmö males and females was given a questionnaire with the 14-item JCQ and 11-item DCQ for the job control and job demands. The JCQ job control and job demands scores were calculated in 3 different ways: using the 14-item JCQ standard scale formulas (method 1); dropping 3 job control items and using the 11-item JCQ standard scale formulas with additional scale weights (method 2); and the approach of the IPD Group (method 3), dropping 3 job control items, but using the simple 11-item summation-based scale formulas. The high job strain was defined as a combination of high demands and low control. Results: Between the 2 questionnaires, false negatives for the high job strain were much greater than false positives (37-49% vs. 7-13%). When the method 3 was applied, the sensitivity of the JCQ for the high job strain against the DCQ was lowest (0.51 vs. 0.60-0.63 when the methods 1 and 2 were applied), although the specificity was highest (0.93 vs. 0.87-0.89 when the methods 1 and 2 were applied). The prevalence of the high job strain with the JCQ (the method 3 was applied) was considerably lower (4-7%) than with the JCQ (the methods 1 and 2 were applied) and the DCQ. The number of congruent cases for the high job strain between the 2 questionnaires was smallest when the method 3 was applied. Conclusions: The IPD-Work Consortium approach showed 2 major weaknesses to be used for epidemiological studies on the high job strain and health outcomes as compared to the standard JCQ methods: the greater misclassification of the high job strain and lower prevalence of the high job strain.

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Psychosocial working conditions and active leisure-time physical activity in middle-aged us workers

Cited by 84 publications

References 46 publications

The Moderating Effect of Health-Improving Workplace Environment on Promoting Physical Activity in White-Collar Employees

The Moderating Effect of Health-Improving Workplace Environment on Promoting Physical Activity in White-Collar Employees

Disparities of Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence by Age, Gender and Occupation among Korean Adult Workers

Validity test of the IPD-Work consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between Job Content Questionnaire and Demand-Control Questionnaire

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