Effects of work stress, sleep, and shift work on suicidal ideation among female workers in an electronics company

Author(s):  
Junseok Son ◽  
Sangyoon Lee
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Laurence Dumont ◽  
Marie-France Marin ◽  
Sonia J. Lupien ◽  
Robert-Paul Juster

Mental health problems related to chronic stress in workers appear to be sex-specific. Psychosocial factors related to work–life balance partly explain these sex differences. In addition, physiological markers of stress can provide critical information on the mechanisms explaining how chronic stress gets “under the skull” to increase vulnerability to mental health disorders in working men and women. Stress hormones access the brain and modulate attentional and memory process in favor of threatening information. In the present study, we tested whether male and female workers present a memory bias towards work-stress related information, and whether this bias is associated with concentrations of stress hormones in reactivity to a laboratory stressor (reactive levels) and samples taken in participants’ workday (diurnal levels). In total, 201 participants (144 women) aged between 18 and 72 years underwent immediate and delayed recall tasks with a 24-word list, split as a function of valence (work-stress, positive, neutral). Participants were exposed to a psychosocial stressor in between recalls. Reactivity to stress was measured with saliva samples before and after the stressor. Diurnal cortisol was also measured with five saliva samples a day, during 2 workdays. Our exploratory results showed that men presented greater cortisol reactivity to stress than women, while women recalled more positive and neutral words than men. No sex difference was detected on the recall of work-stress words, before or after exposure to stress. These results do not support the hypothesis of a sex-specific cognitive bias as an explanatory factor for sex differences in stress-related mental health disorders in healthy male and female workers. However, it is possible that such a work-stress bias is present in individuals who have developed a mental-health disorder related to workplace stress or who have had one in the recent past. Consequently, future studies could use our stress memory bias task to assess this and other hypotheses in diverse working populations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang‐Gyo Yoon ◽  
Kyu‐Jung Bae ◽  
Mo‐Yeol Kang ◽  
Jin‐Ha Yoon

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Loerbroks ◽  
Sung-Il Cho ◽  
Maureen F. Dollard ◽  
Jianfang Zou ◽  
Joachim E. Fischer ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (08/09) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Loerbroks ◽  
SI Cho ◽  
M Dollard ◽  
J Zou ◽  
JE Fischer ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun-Young Kim ◽  
Young-Chul Shin ◽  
Kang-Seob Oh ◽  
Dong-Won Shin ◽  
Weon-Jeong Lim ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ho Sung Kwak ◽  
Hyoung Ouk Park ◽  
Young Ouk Kim ◽  
Jun Seok Son ◽  
Chan Woo Kim ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Mi Park

Background: Korea has the highest rate of suicide in the world and has held this rank for the last decade. Suicide has risen especially sharply among 45- to 54-year-old Koreans; there were about 32.1 suicides per 100,000 individuals in 2015, and this contributed significantly to the rising suicide rate in Korea. Recently, adverse work conditions, including insecure employment and shift work, have been suggested as a suicide risk factor. However, little is known about the influence of insecure employment on suicidal ideation among middle-aged adults. Furthermore, prior research has examined the association between shift work and suicidal ideation only among individuals engaged in specific jobs, such as police work or firefighting, and those investigations have not focused on middle-aged adults. Aim: This study investigated the influence of employment status and shift work on suicidal ideation among middle-aged adults. Methods: The sample comprised waged, middle-aged adult employees ( n = 2,364) aged 45–64 years who had participated in the cross-sectional Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015. Using multivariate logistic regression analyses, this study evaluated the associations of employment status and shift work with suicidal ideation among middle-aged adults. Results: The major finding was that insecure employment status was independently associated with suicidal ideation in middle-aged adults (odds ratio (OR) = 2.50, 95% confidence interval (CI) = [1.27, 4.94]) and that shift work was significantly associated with suicidal ideation among middle-aged adults (OR = 2.30, 95% CI = [1.14, 4.66]). Conclusions: The findings of this study highlight the need for multidimensional interventions regarding suicide, especially for middle-aged adults engaged in insecure jobs and shift work. Multidimensional interventions, including early screening for suicidal thoughts during routine medical check-ups, readily available work-based counselling programmes and regular monitoring, are likely to be useful.


Author(s):  
Ayyuda Asyraf Zahra ◽  
Sho'im Hidayat

PT. (X), Surabaya is one of company that manages toll road or highway that implement the shift system of work. Shift work has the potential for job stress and other health problems. The purpose of this research was to identify descriptive the level of job stress between shift work at the toll collector in PT. (X), Surabaya. This research was an observational analytic study with cross sectional approach. 36 toll collector who work when the morning shift, afternoon, and evening at the toll gate x, toll gate y and toll gate z were chosen as sample by using Proportional Random Sampling method. The results showed when the shift I (morning) there were 15 respondents (41.7%) suffered mild job stress and 21 respondents (58.3%) suffered moderate job stress. At the shift II (evening) there were 12 respondents (33.3%) suffered mild stress of work and 24 respondents (66.7%) suffered moderate job stress, while at the shift III (evening) were 9 respondents (25%) suffered light work stress and 27 respondents (75%) suffered moderate job stress. Based on the research results, it can be concluded the level of job stress between of shift work on the toll collectors suffered mild and moderate stress. The greatest frequency of respondents suffered moderate job stress. Recommendation for the company is review the system of career development and maintaining training activities, while for workers is use the time to rest and regular exercise.Keywords: job stress, shift work, toll collector


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