The Effects of Workplace Occupational Mental Health and Related Activities on Psychological Distress Among Workers

Eguchi, Hisashi; Tsuda, Yoko; Tsukahara, Teruomi; Washizuka, Shinsuke; Kawakami, Norito; Nomiyama, Tetsuo

doi:10.1097/jom.0b013e31825107bb

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“…Among acculturation-related stress factors: acculturation and adjustment to a new culture, life events, and job and workplace adjustment, the last aspect was further categorized into three: job demand, relationship formation, and company climate, consistent with the previous findings about job stress (Eguchi et al, 2012). Different from local workers, our participants considered cultural aspects to be imbedded in each stressor and felt more uncomfortable and incompetent in dealing with them for this reason.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…It was also found that his long-term career goals and future plans were major factors for satisfaction with the current work, expectation about future career, motivation for work adaptation, and at the same time, worries about starting career in the foreign country. Expected job stress factors were consistent with actual stress factors such as task-related burdens, interpersonal relationships, job fitness and life career, as suggested to be important in previous research (Eguchi et al, 2012).…”

Section: Preliminary Studysupporting

confidence: 57%

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Understanding Workplace Adaptation as an Acculturation Process: A Qualitative Examination of South Korean Highly Skilled Workers in Japan

Lee¹,

Park²,

Ban³

2016

IJPS

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Although study on job stress and coping among Highly Skilled Migrants (HSMs) has been increasing around Anglo European countries, little is known about Asian migrants working in Asian countries. The present study examined stress factors among South Korean HSMs in Japan and explored their coping strategies in relation to acculturation processes. Semi-structured interviews with eight participants found three main domains affecting work adaptation-related stress: acculturation and adjustment, life events, and job stress. Job demand, relationship formation, and company climate were identified as major job stress factors. HSMs tended to perceive job stress factors as being related to a cultural difference or unique characteristics of Japanese organizations. This qualitative study addresses an initial step towards researching Asian migrant workers in Japan society, suggesting importance of incorporating culture-specific issues in acculturation processes with their job adjustment issues. It is necessary for immigration policy makers to encourage reciprocal understandings between migrants and local colleagues for improving mental health and well-being of both groups in organizations.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Preliminary Studysupporting

confidence: 57%

Understanding Workplace Adaptation as an Acculturation Process: A Qualitative Examination of South Korean Highly Skilled Workers in Japan

Lee¹,

Park²,

Ban³

2016

IJPS

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“…These measures are empirically supported in view of maintaining the mental health of workers. The importance of workplace communication is supported by a study on industrial mental health in ordinary times, 17 and workplace communication remains important in times of disaster. We added a separate analysis stratified by level of communication and found that the disaster-related stressors of having dead or missing family members and living in a shelter as of May 2011 (signifying prolonged unstable residence two months after the disaster) increased the risk of mental distress.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Poor communication with coworkers also reportedly increases the risk of work-related mental health in ordinary times, 17 and the bivariate analysis indicated that level of workplace communication was associated with mental distress (Table 2). Because the level of workplace communication is not necessarily a disaster-related stressor, we specifically chose to include as factors of interest, the disaster-related risk factors in the multivariate analysis for separate groups based on quality of communication (good, reasonable, or poor) in order to control for the known workplace risk factor of poor workplace communication.…”

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Mental Health Distress and Related Factors Among Prefectural Public Servants Seven Months After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Suzuki

Fukasawa

Obara³

et al. 2014

Journal of Epidemiology

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BackgroundTo develop an empirically informed support measure for workers, we examined mental health distress and its risk factors among prefectural public servants who were affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and faced a demanding workload in the midterm of the disaster.MethodsWe conducted a self-administered health survey of all public servants in the Miyagi prefectural government two and seven months after the Great East Japan Earthquake (3743 workers, 70.6% of all employees). We calculated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for mental distress (defined as K6 score ≥10) in the domain of disaster-work-related stressors, work-related stressors, and disaster-related stressors.ResultsAmong those with better levels of workplace communication, the only factor that increased the risk of mental distress was not taking a non-work day each week (adjusted OR 2.55, 95% CI 1.27–5.14). Among those with poorer levels of workplace communication, in addition to not taking a non-work day each week (adjusted OR 3.93, 95% CI 3.00–5.15), handling residents’ complaints (adjusted OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.00–2.42), having dead or missing family members (adjusted OR 2.87, 95% CI 1.53–5.38), and living in a shelter more than two months after the disaster (adjusted OR 2.80, 95% CI 1.32–5.95) increased the risk of mental distress.ConclusionsAll workers should be encouraged to take a non-work day each week. Among workers with poor workplace communication, special attention should be given to those who handle residents’ complaints, have lost a family member(s), and are living in a shelter for a prolonged period of time.

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“…Such conditions are often exacerbated by the lack of appropriate health policies and health promotion activities to improve health in the workplace [11,14,15]. It is therefore important that workplace environments having health policy to encourage healthy behaviours in areas such as exercise and nutrition, and implement strategies for resolution of conflicts between employees, co-workers and managers.…”

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Depression in Employees in Privately Owned Enterprises in China: Is It Related to Work Environment and Work Ability?

Sun

Buys

Wang

2013

IJERPH

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This study examines the individual and workplace factors related to depression and stress in a large privately owned enterprise in China. The cross-sectional study design involved 13 privately owned retail enterprises in China. A self-report survey was administered to 4,847 employees aged 18–54 recruited through the management boards of the 13 enterprises. A chi-square test was used to compare differences between the depressed and non-depressed groups on a number of demographic variables and chronic diseases. Logistic regression analysis was performed to assess depression in relation to individual factors (work ability and resilience) and organisational environmental factors (workplace ethos and culture, psychosocial environment and health promotion policies and activities). Significant relationships were found between employee depression all personal factors, and one organisational environmental factor. Personal factors include poor work ability and low resilience, while workplace factors include workplace ethos and culture. The primary organisational environmental factor was a low level of enterprise ethos and culture.

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The Effects of Workplace Occupational Mental Health and Related Activities on Psychological Distress Among Workers

Abstract: The findings suggest that promotion of communication in the workplace is associated with reduced psychological distress among workers. In addition, OMH activities may also be useful in reducing psychological distress.

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Understanding Workplace Adaptation as an Acculturation Process: A Qualitative Examination of South Korean Highly Skilled Workers in Japan

Understanding Workplace Adaptation as an Acculturation Process: A Qualitative Examination of South Korean Highly Skilled Workers in Japan

Mental Health Distress and Related Factors Among Prefectural Public Servants Seven Months After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Depression in Employees in Privately Owned Enterprises in China: Is It Related to Work Environment and Work Ability?

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