Working hours and depressive symptoms: the role of job stress factors

Yoon, Yeogyeong; Ryu, Jia; Kim, Hyunjoo; Jung-Choi, Kyunghee

doi:10.1186/s40557-018-0257-5

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“…Investigating further into potential associated factors of depression among industrial workers, we found positive correlates that were also reported elsewhere: working long hours [41,42] and having more health problems [43]. On the other hand, being female was found to be negatively correlated with the likelihood of having depression, which may be considered contradictory with some research that has found women at workplace to have higher rates of depression than their male counterparts [44].…”

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Depressive Symptoms among Industrial Workers in Vietnam and Correlated Factors: A Multi-Site Survey

Tran

Pham

et al. 2019

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Depressive disorders have been found to be a significant health issue among industrial workers, resulting from work-related factors and causing serious burdens for the workers as well as their employers. Literature on mental health problems of Vietnamese industrial workers has been limited, despite the rapid foreign investment-fueled industrialization process of the country. This study aimed to fill the gap in literature by examining the prevalence of depressive disorders and their potential associated factors among a cohort of Vietnamese industrial workers. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 3 industrial areas in Hanoi and Bac Ninh. A total of 289 workers agreed to participate in the study. Generalized linear mixed models were applied to identify associated factors with depression status of respondents. 38.6% of participants reported suffering depression. Factors found to be positively associated with the possibility of having depression and higher PHQ9 score were long working hours, suffering more health problems, and health hazards exposure at work. Meanwhile, being females, having more children, living with parents, engaging in smoking, and being local workers were found to correlate with lower likelihood of being depressed. The findings suggested the importance of regular health screening, work safety assurance, and social support outside of workplace on the mental health of the workers.

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Depressive Symptoms among Industrial Workers in Vietnam and Correlated Factors: A Multi-Site Survey

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“…Among work stressors, long weekly working hours had the strongest association with poor psychological well‐being for men, and lack of decision latitude had the strongest association with poor psychological well‐being for women. Previous studies also showed an association of long working hours with mental health problems 30‐35 . The present study is in agreement with previous studies which also showed that adverse psychosocial work stressors, such as job strain 5 and ERI 6 were related to impaired employee health and an increased risk of chronic diseases 8‐13 .…”

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Association of poor psychological well‐being with co‐exposure to psychosocial factors at work in Korean regular workers

Park

Kim

2020

American J Industrial Med

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Background This study evaluated the association of co‐exposure to different psychosocial factors with poor psychological well‐being of Korean regular workers. Methods This was a secondary analysis of data from the fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey, conducted in 2017. Multiple logistic regression was used to determine adjusted odd ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals for poor psychological well‐being associated with self‐reported psychosocial factors. Poor psychological well‐being was measured using the Well‐Being Index of the World Health Organization. For each question on psychosocial factors (long weekly working hours, lack of decision latitude, work pressure, lack of autonomy, lack of role clarity, organizational injustice, lack of reward, and lack of support from managers), answers of “always” and “most of the time” were classified as affirmative and answers of”sometimes,” “rarely,” and “never” were classified as negative. Results Poor psychological well‐being was significantly associated with most individual work stressors for both sexes (aORs = 1.22‐1.83). Furthermore, poor psychological well‐being had a positive association with co‐exposure to different psychosocial factors (aORs = 1.71‐8.08). Co‐exposure to an increasing number of psychosocial factors showed greater association with poor psychological well‐being. Conclusion We found that poor psychological well‐being was associated with co‐exposure to psychosocial factors in Korean workers in regular employment. Thus, we suggest that employers provide comprehensive measures that will protect workers from simultaneous exposure to adverse psychosocial factors.

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“…A workload (2,32), which is a typical attribute of extended hour work also indicated asa predictor of stress. Research witnessed as workers increase working hours from 40 to longer hours depressive symptoms,stress occurrence likelihood also increases in research done among Korean re ghters (33),Korean survey (34), and white-collar workers (35).Too much work(23) that often can be equated with long working hours also corroborates our ndings.…”

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“…It was assessed by asking whether the study participant encountered accidents over the past one year before the study. Job satisfaction was assessed by score measured using the generic job satisfaction scale as yes (32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40) and no (20). A study participant who drinks at least ve drinks of alcohol per week for men and two drinks per week for women for at least one year was taken as alcohol drinker (19).…”

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Level of Stress in Ganale Dawa Hydropower Dam construction workers: A Cross Sectional Study

Dg¹,

Hussen²

2020

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Background:Stress is the harmful physical and emotional response caused by an imbalance between the perceived demands and the perceived resources and abilities of individuals to cope with those demands. In the developing world, work-related stress is an issue of growing concern. Work-related stress can severely impact workers' general achievement levels in a negative way concerning both efficiency and accuracy. Thus striving to determine the level of stress at a job and its contributory factors will be insatiable input for intervention.Method: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence and associated factors of job stress among Ganale Dawa 3D Hydropower Dam construction workers from April1-22, 2018. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire on 405 workers. Multivariable logistic regression analysis with a 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to identify the factors significantly associated with a good level of food hygiene knowledge. P-value less than 0.05 was used to declare statistical significant association.Result: A quarter of construction workers,24.7% [95% CI: (20.5%, 28.0%)]suffered from stress in their workplace. Being at young (AOR: 3.07, 95% CI: 1.45, 6.47) and middle (AOR: 3.94 95% CI: 1.27, 12.24)ages; sustain injury in 12 months (AOR: 2.6095% CI: 1.40, 4.80), shiftwork (AOR: 2.22 95% CI: 1.03, 4.79) and working over 48 hours per week (AOR: 4.5495% CI: 2.40, 8.56)were significantly associated with stress. Conclusion: This study showed that construction work is one of the most stressfuloccupations. It also suggeststhat age of workers, history of injury within 12 months of the study, shift work, and working over 48 hours per week were significantly associated with stress. Therefore, much has to be done by introducing flexible working hours that do not exceed 48 hours per week, avoiding long hours of shift work longer than 8hours and protecting the workers from work-related injury.

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Working hours and depressive symptoms: the role of job stress factors

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Depressive Symptoms among Industrial Workers in Vietnam and Correlated Factors: A Multi-Site Survey

Depressive Symptoms among Industrial Workers in Vietnam and Correlated Factors: A Multi-Site Survey

Association of poor psychological well‐being with co‐exposure to psychosocial factors at work in Korean regular workers

Level of Stress in Ganale Dawa Hydropower Dam construction workers: A Cross Sectional Study

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