Impact of Long Working Hours on Mental Health: Evidence from China

Ma, Xinxin

doi:10.3390/ijerph20021641

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“…The Chinese government strives for employment equality in the labor market, yet women tend to assume a greater share of family responsibilities, including childrearing, eldercare, and domestic tasks. The dual transition of enduring long work hours followed by an equivalent amount of time spent on household chores can lead to a higher incidence of work-family conflict for women, thereby exacerbating the adverse effects of prolonged working hours on them [ 55 ]. The social roles of women may also have an impact on the risk of periarthritis in women.…”

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Factors associated with frozen shoulder in adults: a retrospective study

Abudula,

Maimaiti,

Yasheng

et al. 2024

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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Objective This study aims to explore the risk factors associated with frozen shoulder patients and further analyze the relationship between gender and diabetes with frozen shoulder. Method We have reviewed the data of 1205 frozen shoulder patients in China's Xinjiang region from 2018 to 2023. The collected information included patients' gender, occupation, place of origin, marital status, age, the season of disease onset, duration of illness, etiology, surgical history, hypertension, diabetes, respiratory diseases, knee joint disease, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperuricemia, sleep quality, smoking and alcohol consumption, and constipation. We have used multifactor logistic regression analysis to identify the risk factors for a frozen shoulder. Results Single-factor logistic regression analysis showed that the number of females, patients with diabetes, knee joint disease, constipation, and patients with poor sleep quality in the observation group are higher than in the control group (P < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in terms of occupation, place of origin, marital status, age, season of disease onset, duration of illness, etiology, surgical history, hypertension, respiratory diseases, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperuricemia, smoking, and alcohol consumption history (P > 0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that the final model included four variables: gender, diabetes history, sleep, and constipation. Among them, the OR values of gender and diabetes history were more significant than 1, indicating that they were independent risk factors for frozen shoulder, while the OR values of sleep and constipation were less than 1, suggesting that they were negatively associated with the occurrence of frozen shoulder. Conclusion The results of this study suggest that gender and diabetes are independent risk factors for frozen shoulder. Additionally, poor sleep quality and constipation also can be correlated with the occurrence of a frozen shoulder.

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Factors associated with frozen shoulder in adults: a retrospective study

Abudula,

Maimaiti,

Yasheng

et al. 2024

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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“…Virtanen et al conducted a meta-analysis and concluded that long working hours were positively associated with depressive symptoms, and this association was stronger in Asian countries than in others ( 33 ). Ma’s study indicated that long working hours had positive and significant relationship with the risk of mental illness, and the effect was more significant for women, white-collar workers, and employees in micro-firms, compared with their counterparts ( 34 ). Sex-stratified analysis showed that working long hours increased the odds of depression and anxiety symptoms among females ( 35 ).…”

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Overtime work, job autonomy, and employees’ subjective well-being: Evidence from China

Yang

Chen

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionChinese workers suffer more from overtime than in many countries. Excessive working hours can crowd out personal time and cause work-family imbalance, affecting workers’ subjective well-being. Meanwhile, self-determination theory suggests that higher job autonomy may improve the subjective well-being of employees.MethodsData came from the 2018 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS 2018). The analysis sample consisted of 4,007 respondents. Their mean age was 40.71 (SD = 11.68), and 52.8% were males. This study adopted four measures of subjective well-being: happiness, life satisfaction, health status, and depression. Confirmation factor analysis was employed to extract the job autonomy factor. Multiple linear regression methods were applied to examine the relationship between overtime, job autonomy, and subjective well-being.ResultsOvertime hours showed weak association with lower happiness (β = −0.002, p < 0.01), life satisfaction (β = −0.002, p < 0.01), and health status (β = −0.002, p < 0.001). Job autonomy was positively related to happiness (β = 0.093, p < 0.01), life satisfaction (β = 0.083, p < 0.01). There was a significant negative correlation between involuntary overtime and subjective well-being. Involuntary overtime might decrease the level of happiness (β = −0.187, p < 0.001), life satisfaction (β = −0.221, p < 0.001), and health status (β = −0.129, p < 0.05) and increase the depressive symptoms (β = 1.157, p < 0.05).ConclusionWhile overtime had a minimal negative effect on individual subjective well-being, involuntary overtime significantly enlarged it. Improving individual’s job autonomy is beneficial for individual subjective well-being.

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“…For Asian countries, Nie et al (2015) used the China Health and Nutrition Survey and found little evidence that long work hours affect either workers' health or their health-related activities. Taking the endogeneity problem more seriously, Ma (2023) conducted a dynamic panel estimation with the China Family Panel Studies in the 2010s and showed that long working hours have positive and significant effects on the risk of mental illness. Ahn (2016), using a panel dataset on workweek reduction in South Korea, showed that work-hour reduction encourages workers to engage in more healthy behaviours.…”

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The causal effects of working time on mental health: The effectiveness of the law reform raising the overtime wage penalty

Kohara,

Noda

2023

Pacific Economic Review

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The present paper reexamines the causal effect of working hours on workers’ mental health. We utilize Japan's 2010 reform of the Labor Standards Act as a social experiment to examine how the increased wage penalty for long overtime work affects working hours and workers’ mental health. Utilizing a unique panel dataset containing health behaviours as well as individual, household and workplace characteristics of male workers, we find that the wage penalty reform indeed succeeded in reducing overtime hours and total working hours and that the reductions contributed to better mental health of workers. Further empirical investigation suggests that the reduction effect of the reform on working time is homogeneous among age groups; however, the harmful effect of working time on mental health is large and statistically significant among young workers. Our results suggest that setting a high wage penalty for long overtime work effectively reduces overtime work and improves workers’ health outcomes, particularly for young people.

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Impact of Long Working Hours on Mental Health: Evidence from China

Cited by 10 publications

References 52 publications

Factors associated with frozen shoulder in adults: a retrospective study

Factors associated with frozen shoulder in adults: a retrospective study

Overtime work, job autonomy, and employees’ subjective well-being: Evidence from China

The causal effects of working time on mental health: The effectiveness of the law reform raising the overtime wage penalty

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