The Impact of Effort-reward Imbalance on Quality of Life among Japanese Working Men

Watanabe, Mayumi; Aratake, Yutaka; Kato, Noritada; Sakata, Yumi

doi:10.2486/indhealth.46.217

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“…Siegrist et al 6) , Watanabe et al 29) , TobiaszAdamczyk et al 10) , found strong and direct associations between a poor quality of life (mental component) and increasing effort-reward imbalance and overcommitment, in agreement with the results of the present work.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…It is of note, however, that findings from prospective studies, such as those conducted by Stansfeld et al 11) , Siegrist et al 6) , and other crosssectional studies, such as that by Watanabe et al 29) , reinforce the associations observed in the present work.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Achat et al 28) found a statistically positive relationship between social support and mental quality of life among workers. Watanabe et al 29) and Tobiasz-Adamczyk et al 10) found a negative association between physical quality of life and the presence of low control and low social support at work. When present, control at work and social support may function as protectors within the physical component of the SF-12.…”

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Adverse Psychosocial Working Conditions and Poor Quality of Life among Financial Service Employees in Brazil

Silva

Barreto

2012

Journal of Occupational Health

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Adverse Psychosocial Working Conditions and Poor Quality of Life among Financial Service Employees in Brazil: Luiz Sergio SILVA, et al. School of Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil— Objectives Workers in the financial services sector are exposed to great stress at work. This study investigates whether exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions is independently associated with poor health‐related physical and mental quality of life among financial services workers. Methods We studied a nationwide representative sample of 2,054 workers of a large Brazilian state bank in 2008. Adverse psychosocial work conditions were investigated by the Effort‐reward imbalance (ERI) scale and the Job content questionnaire (JCQ). Health‐related quality of life (HRQL) was assessed using the Medical Outcomes Study Short‐Form General Health Survey (SF‐12). Poor mental and physical HRQL was defined by the lowest quartiles of the SF‐12 final score distributions. Associations were investigated using multiple logistic regression analysis. Results In the multivariate analysis, exposures to low control and lack of social support at work (JCQ) were associated with poor HRQL in the physical domain. Increasing effort‐reward imbalance and overcommitment (ERI), on the other hand, were associated with poor HRQL in the mental domain, with a significant statistical trend. Overcommitment was also associated with poor physical HRQL. Conclusion The results suggest that exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions has a negative impact on both domains of HRQL among financial service workers. They also indicate that ERI and DC models capture different aspects of job strain.

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Adverse Psychosocial Working Conditions and Poor Quality of Life among Financial Service Employees in Brazil

Silva

Barreto

2012

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…Exposure to adverse psychosocial work environments, measured by the Demand-Control and the Effort-Reward Imbalance models, was associated with poor quality of life in various occupations: financial services workers [14], male automotive assembly workers in Malaysia [10], workers in airplane manufacturing plants in southern Germany [15], employees from a manufacturing plant in Japan [16], nursing providers in a university hospital [17], and healthcare workers in military hospitals in Taiwan [18]. Studies about quality of life among healthcare workers were identified in Brazil [17,19-21], three of which were conducted with workers of the public health service [19-21].…”

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Psychosocial work conditions and quality of life among primary health care employees: a cross sectional study

Teles

Barbosa

Vargas

et al. 2014

Health Qual Life Outcomes

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BackgroundWorkers in Primary Health Care are often exposed to stressful conditions at work. This study investigated the association between adverse psychosocial work conditions and poor quality of life among Primary Health Care workers.MethodsThis cross-sectional study included all 797 Primary Health Care workers of a medium-sized city, Brazil: doctors, nurses, nursing technicians and nursing assistants, dentists, oral health technicians, and auxiliary oral hygienists, and community health workers. Data were collected by interviews. Quality of life was assessed using the WHOQOL-BREF; general quality of life, as well as the physical, psychological, social and environmental domains were considered, with scores from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate a better quality of life. Poor quality of life was defined by the lowest quartiles of the WHOQOL score distributions for each of the domains. Adverse psychosocial work conditions were investigated by the Effort-Reward Imbalance model. Associations were verified using multiple logistic regression.ResultsPoor quality of life was observed in 117 (15.4%) workers. Workers with imbalanced effort-reward (high effort/low reward) had an increased probability of general poor quality of life (OR = 1.91; 1.07–3.42), and in the physical (OR = 1.62; 1.02–2.66), and environmental (OR = 2.39; 1.37–4.16) domains; those with low effort/low reward demonstrated a greater probability of poor quality of life in the social domain (OR = 1.82; 1.00–3.30). Workers with overcommitment at work had an increased likelihood of poor quality of life in the physical (OR = 1.55, 1.06–2.26) and environmental (OR = 1.69; 1.08–2.65) domains. These associations were independent of individual characteristics, job characteristics, lifestyle, perception of general health, or psychological and biological functions.ConclusionsThere is an association between adverse psychosocial work conditions and poor quality of life among Primary Health Care workers.

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“…All previous studies suggested a significant relationship between ERI and health-related quality of life, and higher ERI is likely to be a risk factor for poor health. In Japan, Watanabe et al investigated the relationship between ERI and health-related quality of life among Japanese employees of a manufacturing plant, and suggested that ERI was associated with health-related quality of life 20) . However, no research has been conducted among Japanese nurses to examine the relationship between ERI and health-related quality of life.…”

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Effort-Reward Imbalance and Quality of Life Among Female Nurses at a General Hospital in Japan

Kikuchi¹,

Nakaya²,

Ikeda³

et al. 2012

Essential Notes in Psychiatry

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The Impact of Effort-reward Imbalance on Quality of Life among Japanese Working Men

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Adverse Psychosocial Working Conditions and Poor Quality of Life among Financial Service Employees in Brazil

Adverse Psychosocial Working Conditions and Poor Quality of Life among Financial Service Employees in Brazil

Psychosocial work conditions and quality of life among primary health care employees: a cross sectional study

Effort-Reward Imbalance and Quality of Life Among Female Nurses at a General Hospital in Japan

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