scholarly journals Giving Social Support at Work May Reduce Inflammation on Employees Themselves: A Participatory Workplace Intervention Study Among Japanese Hospital Nurses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsukumi Tondokoro ◽  
Akinori Nakata ◽  
Yasumasa Otsuka ◽  
Nobuyuki Yanagihara ◽  
Ayumi Anan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Interleukin 6 ◽  
Inflammatory Markers ◽  
Nervous Activity ◽  
Interleukin 12 ◽  
Workplace Intervention ◽  
Autonomic Nervous Activity ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Support At Work

Abstract ObjectivePreviously, we reported that the participatory workplace intervention was effective in reducing stress-related inflammatory markers, i.e., interleukin-6, among 31 Japanese female nurses. During the analysis, we recognized that our intervention might have increased prosocial behaviors like giving social support to others in some participants. Based on this assumption, we ran a secondary analysis, which examined the effect of giving social support to others on inflammatory markers, autonomic nervous activity, and perceived job stress before and after a 5-month intervention. We divided participants into two groups; those who had increased scores on giving social support after the intervention (Group 1, n = 13), and those who had decreased/unchanged in the scores (Group 2, n = 17). Friedman test was used to examine the changes in outcome measures by the group. ResultsGroup 1 showed significant decreases in interferon-γ, interleukin-6, and interleukin-12/23p40 immediately after the intervention, while interleukin-12/23p40 remained stably decreased three months later; Group 2 did not show changes in these markers. No significant changes were observed regarding autonomic nervous activity and perceived job stress. This study presented a significant insight that giving social support at work may provide health benefits towards employees themselves, via decreasing inflammation in the body.

Impact of Job Stress and Social Support on Job Satisfaction among Academic Staff

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumari Kumkum ◽  
R. N. Singh ◽  
Yogershi Rajpoot
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Four Dimensions

There may be so many negative consequences of stress for human beings and dissatisfaction among employees happens to be one of the major problems. It indicates negative feelings that individuals have regarding their jobs or its facets. On the other hand, social support is assumed to be mitigating the relationship between negative aspects of the work environment and job satisfaction. Job stress is said to be associated with job dissatisfaction as well as experience of strain. In view of the above, this study examined the role of job stress and social support in job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 30 school teachers from different school of Varanasi (U.P.). The job stress, job satisfaction and social support scales were administered on the participants. The responses of the participants were converted into scores for statistical analyses. The scores of participants on the scales were correlated. The findings revealed that job stress led to increased job satisfaction. It is against the proposed hypothesis and it appears as if the social support received by the participants is a factor behind it. Two of the four dimensions of social support were found to exert positive impact on job satisfaction but the other two dimensions were not found to be correlated with it. The findings are thoroughly discussed and interpreted.

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