Relationships Between Perceived Stress and Health Behaviors in a Sample of Working Adults.

Ng, Debbie M.; Jeffery, Robert W.

doi:10.1037/0278-6133.22.6.638

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“…Several studies have found no increase in drinking related to stressful life events (Droomers, Schrijvers, Stronks, Van De Mheen, & Mackenbach, 1999;Robertson, Xu, & Stripling, 2010;Welte & Mirand, 1995), social anxiety (Eggleson, Woolaway-Bickel, & Schmidt, 2004;Ham & Hope, 2006;Tran, Haaga, & Chambless, 1997) and posttraumatic stress disorder (Boscarino et al, 2006;Breslau, Davis, & Schultz, 2003;Najdowski & Ullman, 2009), and there are also studies reporting no drinking increase in people who have suffered pain (Yokoyama et al, 2009), sexual victimization (Testa, Livingston, & Hoffman, 2007) and effects of military combat (Fritch, Mishkind, Reger, & Gahm, 2010). Workrelated stress has a particularly uncertain relationship with drinking; sometimes distressed employees drink more (Ahola et al, 2006;Bobak et al, 2005;Richman, Shinsako, Rospenda, Flaherty, & Freels, 2002) and sometimes they do not (Hodgins, Williams, & Munro, 2009;Kouvonen et al, 2005;Ng & Jeffery, 2003). Other studies suggest that stress-induced drinking may be less common in certain age groups (such as older individuals who drink) (Graham & Schmidt, 1999;Pohorecky, 1991;Welte & Mirand, 1995) or in certain special roles (such as reduced drinking among socially anxious college students) (Ham, 2009;Ham & Hope, 2006).…”

Section: Ijadr International Journal Of Alcohol and Drug Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distress and drinking: Cross-cultural connections and contexts

Wilsnack¹,

Kristjanson²,

Wilsnack³

et al. 2013

IJADR

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Aims: Research on how distress is related to drinking has paid relatively little attention to gender and to cultural differences. This study examines how distress is associated with men's and women's drinking cross-culturally.Design: Cross-sectional survey.Setting/Participants: Surveys of 30,728 women and 24,204 men in 22 countries of the GENACIS project (Gender, Alcohol and Culture: An International Study) provided data on how women's and men's mental, interpersonal and work-situational distress are related to their drinking patterns. Measurements:Analyses examined correlations within surveys, and used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to take into account economic development, abstinence rates and distress levels in the populations surveyed. Findings:We found few associations of drinking patterns with reported stressful work situations. Mental and interpersonal distress had more frequent but geographically scattered associations with men's and women's drinking, particularly with quantities consumed. HLM analyses confirmed cross-culturally that drinking tended to increase with psychological and interpersonal distress, but the societal-level variables had few effects.Conclusions: Distress measures in GENACIS surveys were positively though not powerfully associated with both women's and men's drinking cross-culturally, associations not attributable to societal-level characteristics. The findings indicate a need for better cross-cultural information about the processes by which distress may lead to heavier drinking.For over 50 years, hundreds of scholars have tried to learn how distress is connected to drinking. From all their efforts, one conclusion is certain: sometimes emotional and physical distress are associated with heavier drinking and increased risks of alcohol problems and alcohol disorders. However, after much time and effort, it is still not clear how or when or where or why distress and drinking are connected. Here we briefly review some of the more common findings from recent research, and then offer more information about where distress and drinking occur together and how gender may affect the connections.A basic hypothesis about stress and alcohol is that for people who drink, the effects of alcohol seem to help them deal with unpleasant feelings resulting from stressful experiences. Evidence consistent with this hypothesis has been found in a wide variety of circumstances, in those who suffer from social anxiety disorder or symptoms (Carrigan IJADR

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Section: Ijadr International Journal Of Alcohol and Drug Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distress and drinking: Cross-cultural connections and contexts

Wilsnack¹,

Kristjanson²,

Wilsnack³

et al. 2013

IJADR

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“…Associations between OS and CVD risk may therefore be mediated through smoking. The presence of work-related stress (including high concentration demand and work dissatisfaction) predicted smoking status in middle-aged women (Jonsson, Johansson, Rosengren, Lappas, & Wilhelmsen, 2003), and OS has been associated with a broad range of smoking measures in both men and women (Ng & Jeffery, 2003). Associations between OS and levels of cigarette consumption particularly have emerged (Metcalfe, et al, 2003).…”

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Occupational stress and cardiovascular disease

Byrne

Espnes

2008

Stress and Health

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SummaryDespite evidence for a recent decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) 1 mortality (Taylor, Dobson, & Mirzaei, 2006), CVD remains a major cause of death and disability in Western societies. An interest in the presence of CVD risk factors is therefore not surprising, and attempts to link the psychological characteristics of both individuals and their social environments to CVD risk has formed a good part of that research. It is inevitable then, that attention has turned to OS as an explanatory factor in the search to explain CVD risk.

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“…Similarly, Chu and Kao (2005) found that people under high pressure were apt to be nervous and anxious (psychological aspect), prone to headaches, high blood pressure and heart attacks (physical aspect) and prone to absenteeism, high rates of quitting jobs, and low productivity (behavioral aspect). Many other research findings also found the existence, to varying degrees, of a relationship between stress and health (Dahlin, Joneborg, & Runeson, 2005;Ng & Jeffery, 2003). Pearlin (1999) and Lu (1997), reviewing previous studies, pointed out that certain variables play moderating roles in the relationship between stress and health.…”

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Testing a Model of Stress and Health Using Meta-Analytic Path Analysis

Chiu²,

Lin³

et al. 2007

Journal of Nursing Research

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ABSTRACT:The goal of this study was to use meta-analytic path analysis to evaluate a theoretical model of stress and health. A meta-analysis technique was adopted to combine and re-analyze 477 studies that investigated stress-related topics between January 1980 and December 2003 in Taiwan. Databases searched included PerioPath-Index to Chinese Periodical Literature, Electronic Theses and Dissertations System, and NSC (National Science Council) Science and Technology Information System. Variables recorded included stress, health, social support, coping strategies, and personality traits. A correlation matrix of these variables was derived from meta-analytic data and then analyzed using structural path analysis to test the fitness of the hypothesized stress-health model to the observed aggregated data. Results showed the revised hypothesized model to be a reasonable, good fit to aggregated data. Based on the theoretical stress-health model developed in this study, subjective stress was found to have a substantively important and direct effect on health, whereas objective stress required the mediating function of subjective stress to exercise an influence on health. Such variables as social support, coping strategies, and personality traits had comparatively weaker influences, either direct or indirect, on the stress-health process. This study provided a holistic view on the relationship between stress and health in the context of stress and proposed a direction for future research and practice.

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Relationships Between Perceived Stress and Health Behaviors in a Sample of Working Adults.

Cited by 547 publications

References 39 publications

Distress and drinking: Cross-cultural connections and contexts

Distress and drinking: Cross-cultural connections and contexts

Occupational stress and cardiovascular disease

Testing a Model of Stress and Health Using Meta-Analytic Path Analysis

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