The smoking behaviour of military nurses: the relationship to job stress, job satisfaction and social support*

Abstract

Three hundred and seven nurses at a large military medical centre were sent and completed an anonymous questionnaire which measured their smoking status along with job stress, job satisfaction and social support, as well as a variety of demographic factors. Three groups of nurses were defined on the basis of their response to the smoking status questions: those who have never smoked (54%), former smokers (23%) and current smokers (22%). The results revealed that the current smokers reported significantly (P less than 0.05) more job stress, job dissatisfaction and less social support than either former smokers or those who had never smoked. Further, the former smokers reported significantly less social support, defined from a variety of perspectives, than those who had never smoked. These were not as important in predicting amount smoked (number of cigarettes per day) among the current smoker group as they were in predicting differences between the different smoking status groups. The results suggest the need to incorporate the issues of social support and to a lesser extent job stress/satisfaction issues into smoking cessation programmes aimed at this population.

Social support and the smoking behaviour of parents with preschool children

“…Many smokers seem to use smoking as a coping strategy to regulate emotional states (5)(6)(7); social support, which protects against the development of negative emotions (8-lo), could therefore reduce the need for cigarettes. Social support has been associated with successful smoking cessation (1 1-12), and low social support has been associated with smoking in unemployed Finnish workers (13) and American military nurses (14).…”

Cigarette smoking in building trades workers: The impact of work environment

“…Blue-collar workers are more likely to be exposed to hazards on the job [Burkhart et al, 1993; Sorensen et al 1996; Rappaport et al, 2003; Meeker et al, 2006], which can have adverse health effects, including cancer. Stressful and unsatisfactory working conditions might contribute to increased smoking [Westman et al, 1985; Alexander and Beck, 1990; Landsbergis et al, 1998; Radi et al, 2007; Peretti-Watel et al, 2009,]. This is because cigarette smoking may be a way of coping with these stressful work situations in order to get short-term relief from physically or mentally demanding work [Lundberg, 1999; Sorensen et al, 2004].…”

Relationship between Job Stress and Smoking Behaviors among Small Scale Manufacturing Male Workers

“…지금까지 직무스트레스와 흡연과의 관련성에 대한 연 구를 보면, 외국의 경우, 흡연이 스트레스 완화의 주요 원인이 되고 있으며 [4], 직장에서의 심리적 및 신체적인 업무의 요구와 보수에 대한 불만족이 흡연과 관련이 있 다고 보고되고 있다 [5,6]. 또한 직무스트레스가 높고 사 회적 지지가 낮을 경우 흡연율이 높아진다는 보고가 있 으며 [7], 높은 직무요구도와 낮은 직무자율성을 보이는 근로자 집단에서 흡연자의 비율이 더 높은 것으로 나타 났고 보고하고 있다 [8][9][10][11][12].…”