Work stress among six professional groups: the Singapore experience

Chan, Jason; Lai, Gina W F; Ko, Yiu Chung; Boey, Kam Weng

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00397-4

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“…This research has determined that the most common stressful factors in work places of professional drivers are high demands, strictness, underload, extrinsic time pressure, conflict and noxious esposures. These results are in concordance with research of other authors who studied work conditions and working environment of drivers (11)(12)(13)(14)(15). All of these increase tension at work and decrease A -city bus drivers vs. suburban bus drivers; B -intercity bus drivers vs. suburban bus drivers; C -truck drivers vs. official car drivers; D -truck drivers vs. suburban bus drivers; E -official car drivers vs. suburban bus drivers; F -city bus drivers vs. truck drivers; G -city bus drivers vs. official car drivers; ns -non significant.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Serum Lipids and Glucose Disturbances at Professional Drivers Exposed to Occupational Stressors

Stefanović¹,

Stanković²,

Bogdanović³

et al. 2008

Cent Eur J Public Health

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SuMMAryThe aim of this study is to find association between some groups of occupational stressors and serum lipids and glucose concentrations in professional drivers in road traffic. The study included 417 male professional drivers (162 inter city bus drivers, 36 suburban bus drivers, 33 city bus drivers, 81 truck drivers, 71 official car drivers and 34 professional taxi drivers). Occupational stressors were identified and total occupational stress index score was measured by standardized questionnaire authorized by Karen Belkic. Occupational stressors were divided into seven groups (underload, high demand, strictness, extrinsic time pressure, noxious exposures, avoidance and conflict). Serum glucose and lipids concentrations (total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triacylglycerols) were measured in study group of drivers. Maximal total OSI values were achieved in group of professional truck drivers. The highest values of serum glucose, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triacylglycerols and the lowest values of serum HDL cholesterol were found at professional truck drivers. With the increase of occupational stress index, there is an increase of the serum glucose, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triacylglycerols concentration in the exposed group of drivers. Specific analytes thresholds′ level of occupational stress index exists.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Serum Lipids and Glucose Disturbances at Professional Drivers Exposed to Occupational Stressors

Stefanović¹,

Stanković²,

Bogdanović³

et al. 2008

Cent Eur J Public Health

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“…A study of female bank employees in Malaysia by Aminah (2003) found that WIF led to psychological distress which in turn led to reduced life satisfaction. Chan, Lai, Ko and Boey (2000) in their study of professionals in Singapore found that work-family conflict was a eISSN: Selection & Peer-review under responsibility of the Conference Organization Committee source of stress whereby stress was viewed as involving excessive demands made on professionals resulting in disturbances of the psychological system besides those of physiological and social systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Identifying Work-Family Conflict among Nurses: A Qualitative Study

Sabil¹,

Abu²,

Kasuma³

et al. 2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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Working women face stress due to the multiple roles they need to handle to achieve work and family life satisfaction when there is no full support from their spouses. Conflict will arise when they cannot balance their tasks at the workplace and their home. Nurses have many responsibilities in their workplace while needing to manage their families as well. Work-family conflict occurs when workplace responsibilities interfere with family life, such as inflexible working hours, work overload, interpersonal conflict at work and unsupportive supervisors in the organization. This study hopes to identify the scenario of work family conflict among nurses in public sector and outline some strategies for the enhancement of their well-being. Ten respondents were chosen based on purposive sampling. The study was conducted among various levels of nurses at Sarawak General Hospital. Findings from the interviews show that three factors contribute to work family conflict among nurses, namely workload, work shift and position. Recommendations have been proposed based on respondent feedback as well as researchers' view such as reducing work family conflict through work family segmentation, support from family (husband, children and other family members) and self-commitment which comprises the elements of work priority, positive attitude, open communication and intention to work.

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“…Notamment, l'effet spécifique ou modérateur de l'estime de soi a été étudiée par certains auteurs (Carson et al, 1997;Chan et al, 2000;Chang et al, 2005;Marchand et al, 2005a;2006a;McDonough, 2000, Paterniti et al, 2002. Le rôle du centre de contrôle a également retenu l'attention de certains chercheurs (Daniels et Guppy, 1994;Dompierre et al, 1993;Guppy et Wheaterstone, 1997, Leung et al, 2000Naswall et al, 2005;Parkes, 1991, Rahim, 1996Shimazu, 2008;Wilkins et Beaudet, 1998).…”

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“…Il s'agit d'un attribut personnel selon lequel un individu perçoit les évènements de la vie comme étant contingents à ses propres actions (centre de contrôle interne) ou conditionnels à la foi, à la chance ou aux autres (Levens on, 1973;Rotter, 1966 Certaines études ont aisément soutenu que le centre de contrôle interne réduit la détresse psychologique (Chan et al, 2000;Chang et al, 2005;Daniels et Guppy, 1994;Guppy et Wheaterstone, 1997;Leung et al, 2000;Marchand et al, 2005aMarchand et al, , 2006aNaswall et al, 2005;Parkes, 1991;Rahim, 1996;Shimazu, 2008;Wilkins et Beaudet, 1998 (Breslin, 2006;Feldt, 1997, Kivimaki et aL, 1998 (Albertsen et al, 2001;Marchand et al, 2005aMarchand et al, , 2006a. Il ne semble pas y avoir d'études qui affirment le contraire ou encore qui ont trouvé une absence de relation significative.…”

Section: Centre De Contrôleunclassified

“…La personnalité de type A se définit comme étant une lutte perpétuelle pour faire de plus en plus de travail en un laps de temps toujours plus court (Matthews, 1982 (Chan et al, 2000;Dompierre et al, 1993;Nowack, 1986;Patemiti et al, 2002). Ceci peut s'expliquer par le fait que ce type de comportement représente une forme de stratégie de gestion du stress qui est mésadaptée et qui avec le temps, place l'individu dans un état de pression excessive (Code et LanganFox, 2001).…”

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