Moderating Effects of Psychological Job Strain on the Relationship between Working Hours and Health: An Examination of White‐Collar Workers Employed by a Japanese Manufacturing Company

The present study addresses playful work design as the consistent initiative of employees to integrate game-like elements into their day-to-day work in order to reach theirimposed work-related goals. We adapted a short measure for daily playful work design and followed 55 white-collar workers over 5 consecutive working days. We hypothesized that playful work design would be predicted by contextual factors and an individual factor (i.e. job autonomy, manager support for fun and growth need strength). Furthermore, we predicted that, across days, playful work design would relate positively with work engagement and positive affect and negatively with negative affect. Additionally, we tested for the moderation of growth need strength in the relationship between work engagement and playful work design. Results indicated that playful work design was not predicted by job either job autonomy, manager support for fun or growth need strength. We found that playful work design was related positively to work engagement and positive affect, but not related to negative affect. Moreover, growth need strength didn’t moderate the relationship between daily playful work design and daily work engagement. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of our findings for the work design literature.

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Job strain and psychological distress in white collar workers

Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health ◽

10.5271/sjweh.122 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 139-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

Renée Bourbonnais ◽

Chantal Brisson ◽

J Moisan ◽

M Vézina

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Job Strain ◽

White Collar ◽

White Collar Workers

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The Feminization of Speedup

The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization ◽

10.11126/stanford/9780804796415.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jasper Bernes

Keyword(s):

Personal Computer ◽

White Collar ◽

Office Work ◽

Home Life ◽

Epic Poem ◽

Audio Recordings ◽

The Status ◽

White Collar Workers ◽

The Relationship ◽

Conceptual Work

Engaging debates around the status of unpaid reproductive labor, this chapter investigates Bernadette Mayer’s multifarious project Memory, which is simultaneously a performance, a conceptual work, an installation, and an epic poem. In attempting to document, down to the smallest detail, every aspect of her life for thirty days—using photographs, audio recordings, and written notation—Mayer effectively demonstrates the subsumption of the entirety of life by the protocols and routines of work as well as the transformation of the relationship between unpaid reproductive work and feminized wage labor. Mayer’s “total” artwork, which merges different technologies into a single apparatus, prefigures the reorganization of office work around the personal computer, a technology that has probably done more than anything else to ensure that work and home life are unified by enabling white-collar workers to accomplish tasks from home and, in that sense, never leave work.

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Job strain and psychotropic drug use among white-collar workers

Work & Stress ◽

10.1080/02678379950019752 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 289-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Jocelyne Moisan ◽

Renee Bourbonnais ◽

Chantal Brisson ◽

Michel Gaudet ◽

Michel Vezina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Psychotropic Drug ◽

Job Strain ◽

White Collar ◽

Psychotropic Drug Use ◽

White Collar Workers

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Persistence and Progression of Masked Hypertension: A 5-Year Prospective Study

International Journal of Hypertension ◽

10.1155/2013/836387 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Xavier Trudel ◽

Alain Milot ◽

Chantal Brisson

Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Working Hours ◽

White Collar ◽

Public Organizations ◽

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Masked Hypertension ◽

Sustained Hypertension ◽

White Collar Workers ◽

The Mean

Objectives. To examine masked hypertension persistence over 5 years.Methods. White-collar workers were recruited from three public organizations. Blood pressure (BP) was measured using Spacelabs 90207. Manually operated BP was defined as the mean of the first three readings taken at rest. Ambulatory BP was defined as the mean of the next readings taken every 15 minutes and recorded during working hours. BP was assessed three times over 5 years. Masked hypertension was defined as manually operated BP less than 140 and less than 90 mmHg and ambulatory BP at least 135 or at least 85 mmHg. Sustained hypertension was defined as manually operated BP at least 140 or at least 90 mmHg and ambulatory BP at least 135 or at least 85 mmHg or being treated for hypertension.Results. BP measurements were obtained from 1669 participants from whom 232 had masked hypertension at baseline. Persistence of masked hypertension was 38% and 18.5%, after 3 and 5 years, respectively. Progression to sustained hypertension was 26% and 37%, after 3 and 5 years, respectively.Conclusion. Among baseline masked hypertensives, one-third progressed to sustained hypertension and about one out of five remained masked after 5 years, potentially delaying diagnosis and treatment.

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