Work-related stress and role of personality in a sample of Italian bus drivers

In recent years, migrant workers, defined as people who move from Chinese rural areas to cities in other parts of the country to find work, have experienced slowed wage growth. An important question that has emerged is whether depressive symptoms have a significant relationship with migrant worker wages. This paper uses a nationally representative panel dataset to examine the overall association of depressive symptoms and migrant worker wages in China and explores the indirect mechanisms through which these impacts occur. Using the Coarsened Exact Matching method, our results show that depressive symptoms have a significant direct negative relationship with migrant worker wages, and that this relationship is consistent. Furthermore, we also find that depressive symptoms can reduce migrant worker wages indirectly by increasing the frequency of job conversion or by shortening work duration.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depressive Symptoms and Migrant Worker Wages: Estimation Based on a Nationally-Representative Panel Dataset

Huang

Xue

Zhou

et al. 2019

“…As our study included participants with different organizational levels, the OWI could be influenced by their specific roles as employees or owners, for instance. Secondly, employees’ personality traits and attitudes or behaviors can influence their job demands perceptions and performance, as other studies suggested [62]. Thirdly, while it has been mainly considered that stress and job demands could negatively affect employees’ health status, more recently it has also been suggested that work can positively affect workers’ well-being by improving cognitive functioning and perceived health [63].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Older Worker Identity and Job Performance: The Moderator Role of Subjective Age and Self-Efficacy

Rodríguez-Cifuentes

Farfán

Topa

2018

Older Worker Identity consists of the internalization of negative beliefs and attitudes towards aged employees by these same people. This research aims to explore the moderator role both of subjective age and self-efficacy in the relationship between older worker identity and job performance. The study was conducted with a panel design, including a sample of +40 Spanish workers (n = 200), with two waves (4-months interval). The findings supported the moderator role of subjective age in the relationship, while it failed to support the moderator role of self-efficacy. These findings underline that workers who actively manage their subjective age perceptions could age successfully at work. The implications of this study for counseling practices are discussed.

“…Although the importance of stress as a pathogenetic factor of various psychosomatic illnesses has been recognized ever since the first half of the last century, it is only in these last decades that the deepening of knowledge in the fields of neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, and immunology has allowed us to understand and interpret, in large, the variations of the specific mechanisms that are at the basis of pathologies induced by an excess of adverse stimuli [4,5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-Related Stress, Physio-Pathological Mechanisms, and the Influence of Environmental Genetic Factors

Cannizzaro

Ramaci

Cirrincione

et al. 2019

Work-related stress is a growing health problem in modern society. The stress response is characterized by numerous neurochemicals, neuroendocrine and immune modifications that involve various neurological systems and circuits, and regulation of the gene expression of the different receptors. In this regard, a lot of research has focused the attention on the role played by the environment in influencing gene expression, which in turn can control the stress response. In particular, genetic factors can moderate the sensitivities of specific types of neural cells or circuits mediating the imprinting of the environment on different biological systems. In this current review, we wish to analyze systematic reviews and recent experimental research on the physio-pathological mechanisms that underline stress-related responses. In particular, we analyze the relationship between genetic and epigenetic factors in the stress response.