A Longitudinal Study of Work Characteristics and Health Complaints Among Insurance Employees in VDT Work

Lindström, Kari; Leino, Tuula; Seitsamo, Jorma; Torstila, I

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“…Applying the selection criteria resulted in nine articles. We excluded the longitudinal study by Lindström et al, 18 because cross-sectional analyses were performed. The two reviewers initially disagreed on the selection of one article, resulting in a k of 0.94.…”

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Should office workers spend fewer hours at their computer? A systematic review of the literature

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Worldwide, millions of office workers use a computer. Reports of adverse health effects due to computer use have received considerable media attention. This systematic review summarises the evidence for a relationship between the duration of work time spent using the computer and the incidence of hand-arm and neck-shoulder symptoms and disorders. Several databases were systematically searched up to 6 November 2005. Two reviewers independently selected articles that presented a risk estimate for the duration of computer use, included an outcome measure related to handarm or neck-shoulder symptoms or disorders, and had a longitudinal study design. The strength of the evidence was based on methodological quality and consistency of the results. Nine relevant articles were identified, of which six were rated as high quality. Moderate evidence was concluded for a positive association between the duration of mouse use and hand-arm symptoms. For this association, indications for a dose-response relationship were found. Risk estimates were in general stronger for the hand-arm region than for the neck-shoulder region, and stronger for mouse use than for total computer use and keyboard use. A pathophysiological model focusing on the overuse of muscles during computer use supports these differences. Future studies are needed to improve our understanding of safe levels of computer use by measuring the duration of computer use in a more objective way, differentiating between total computer use, mouse use and keyboard use, attaining sufficient exposure contrast, and collecting data on disability caused by symptoms.

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“…Somatic complaints have been found to be related to job insecurity (Cheng & Chan, 2008;Sverke et al, 2002). For example, the increased occurrence of ischemic heart disease (Siegriest, Peter, Junge, Cremer, & Siegel, 1990), increased blood pressure (Ferrie, Shipley, Marmot, Stansfeld, & Smith, 1998;Kasl, 1979) as well as increased neck and shoulder pain (Lindström, Leino, Seitsamo, & Torstila, 1997) have been related to job insecurity. Others have found job insecurity to be associated with increased medical consultation, which can be seen as an indicator of impaired well-being.…”

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Job Insecurity and Its Consequences: Investigating Moderators, Mediators and Gender

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2011

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This thesis has aimed at increasing our understanding of the relations between job insecurity and its consequences by addressing several specific research aims. The first research aim focused on increasing the range of job insecurity consequences by studying the relation between job insecurity and work-family conflict over time in order to investigate the directionality of their association, which was addressed in Study 3. It was found that job insecurity affected work-family conflict one year later, but only among men.The second research aim addressed mechanisms involved in the job insecurity-outcome relations. Factors that might make employees more vulnerable to, or buffer against the negative effects of job insecurity were studied. Coping with job insecurity was investigated as potential moderating factors in Study 1. The results showed that problem-focused coping did not function as a buffer, nor did devaluation coping and avoidance coping, the two types of emotion-focused coping studied. Avoidance coping was actually a vulnerability factor for men, and related to more negative reactions to job insecurity in terms of job satisfaction and mental health complaints. Two forms of job dependence were also investigated in Study 2 as potential moderating factors of the relations between job insecurity and its outcomes. It was found that the relative contribution to the household income functioned as a vulnerability factor for men. Higher levels of work centrality combined with either quantitative or qualitative job insecurity were related to higher levels of job satisfaction among women. As a final mechanism, workload was investigated as a mediating variable of the relation between job insecurity and its outcomes in Study 3. The results showed that workload linked job insecurity to work-family conflict one year later, but only for men.The third research aim of this thesis addressed gender, and differences between men and women were found in all three studies, where men overall seemed to suffer more from job insecurity. All in all, these results confirm previous results regarding the negative impact of job insecurity, but also provide information regarding important areas for future research to study, such as the further investigation of mechanisms as well as the role of gender.

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“…It also requires expanding and supporting the agent/sales force with minimal impact on operations. Lai, Chan, Ko and Boey (2000) found that insurance staff experience high job insecurity, a lack of variety and control, high workload and poor interpersonal relations (Lindstrom, Leino, Seitsamo & Tordtila, 1997). In a South African study, Coetzer (2004) found that employees in the insurance industry experience high levels of job insecurity.…”

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A psychometric evaluation of the job demands resources scale in South Africa

2006

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The aims of this study were to investigate the construct validity, construct equivalence and reliability of a measuring instrument of job demands and resources, and to assess the differences between the job demands and resources in different organisations in South Africa. Stratified, random samples (N = 2717) of employees in different organizations were taken. Five reliable factors were extracted using principal component analysis with a varimax rotation, namely overload, growth opportunities, organisational support, advancement, and job insecurity. All factors, except organisational support, showed acceptable equivalence for different organisations. Statistically significant differences were found between the perceptions of job demands and resources in different organisations.

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A Longitudinal Study of Work Characteristics and Health Complaints Among Insurance Employees in VDT Work

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Should office workers spend fewer hours at their computer? A systematic review of the literature

Should office workers spend fewer hours at their computer? A systematic review of the literature

Job Insecurity and Its Consequences: Investigating Moderators, Mediators and Gender

A psychometric evaluation of the job demands resources scale in South Africa

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