Worktime control-dependent reductions in fatigue, sleep problems, and depression

Takahashi, Masaya; Iwasaki, Kenji; Sasaki, Takeshi; Kubo, Tomohide; Mori, Ippei; Otsuka, Yasumasa

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2010.06.006

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“…Recently, a great deal of research has been conducted on the importance of leisure activity in fatigue recovery (31)(32)(33). Moreover, findings from recent studies indicate that increased control of working time and/or days off plays a crucial role in improving workers' health (34). Therefore, the benefits of weekend sleep extension are likely to vary depending on the types of leisure activity in which the participants engage (eg, active or passive leisure) and/or working style.…”

Section: Sleep Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weekend sleep intervention for workers with habitually short sleep periods

Kubo¹,

Takahashi²,

Sato³

et al. 2011

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Section: Sleep Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weekend sleep intervention for workers with habitually short sleep periods

Kubo¹,

Takahashi²,

Sato³

et al. 2011

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“…The focus on control of working hours as a job stress prevention measure is a result of studies on the relationship between occurrence of job stress and illness showing a link between incidence of illness and work styles, which leads to regulations controlling long working hours and discretion over control of working hours (Fujino et al 2006). Moreover, working long hours generally reduces the duration and quality of sleep and is linked to depressive symptoms (Yamasaki and Shimada 2009;Takahashi et al 2011Takahashi et al , 2012. The national labor administration in Japan thus proposed a number of recommended work styles that should be implemented by workplaces to control working hours as a component of health management (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Non-Work-Related Personal Events Contribute to Depressive Symptoms in Japanese Discretionary Workers

Ogami

Muto

Haruyama

et al. 2013

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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In Japan, the number of workers with depressive symptoms has increased recently, and long working hours are considered one of the main contributing factors. Currently, the number of workers engaging in discretionary work is small but is expected to increase, as a diverse method of employment is believed to contribute to workers' well-being. However, the factors related to discretionary workers' depressive symptoms are unclear. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with depressive symptoms in discretionary workers. The subjects were 240 male discretionary workers in a Japanese insurance company. A cross-sectional study was performed using a questionnaire that includes demographic characteristics, living and working conditions, work-related and non-work-related stressful events, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Depressive symptoms were assessed as more than 16 points on the CES-D. Multiple logistic regression models were employed to estimate odd ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of depressive symptoms in relation to possible factors. Thirty-six subjects (15.5%) showed depressive symptoms. The depressive symptoms were significantly related to age (p = 0.04), presence of child(ren) (p = 0.02), and length of employment (p = 0.01), but unrelated to working hours. Subjects who reported "financial matters" (OR = 4.50, 95% CI = 1.89-10.72) and "own event" such as divorce or illness (OR = 2.93, 95% CI = 1.13-7.61) were more likely to show depressive symptoms. In conclusion, mental health measures for discretionary workers should focus on addressing financial difficulties and consultations and assistance in personal health and family issues.

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“…However, some studies do compare the relationship between WTC and worker well-being at an individual level-across individuals with different positions in these social systems. For example, Takahashi et al (2011) find that most of the effects of WTC (control over daily working hours and days off) on well-being outcomes were the same regardless of an individual's gender. In the exception, insomnia symptoms decreased with control over daily working hours for men, but not for women.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Outcomes related to increased WTC include reduced physical and psychological distress (Costa, Sartori, & Åkerstedt, 2006;de Jonge, Vegchel, Shimazu, Schaufeli, & Dormann, 2010;D'Souza, Strazdins, Lim, Broom, & Rodgers, 2003;Takahashi et al, 2011), reduced sense of work-family conflict (Fenwick & Tausig, 2004;Geurts et al, 2008;Golden, Wiens-Tuers, Lambert, & Henly, 2011;Hughes & Parkes, 2007;Moen et al, 2008), a greater feeling of income adequacy (Moen et al, 2008), increased job commitment (Halpern, 2005), and reduced rates of sickness-related absence from work (AlaMursula et al, 2006;Ala-Mursula, Vahtera, Linna, Pentti, & Kivimäki, 2005).…”

Section: Control Over Work Timementioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Worktime Control in Context

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2015

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This article examines the relationships between workers' control over their working time and their well-being, looking at how these relationships differ across a set of health care occupations that are stratified by class, gender, and race (physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians [EMTs], and certified nursing assistants [CNAs]). Across occupations, workers' ability to control their schedules decreases their job-related stress. The results show that different dimensions of worktime control (WTC) affect workers in different occupations in distinctive ways, offering a corrective to prior work that combines workers who occupy different locations in the system of social stratification. Among nursing assistants-the most socially marginalized group in the study-the relationships between particular aspects of WTC and job stress were distinct from those associations among the other three occupations, reinforcing the importance of examining these relationships in occupationally specific contexts. This kind of comparative perspective illuminates the ways distributions of intangible resources such as WTC both emerge from and reinforce existing patterns of social stratification. The implications of these differences for research and policy are discussed.

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Worktime control-dependent reductions in fatigue, sleep problems, and depression

Cited by 53 publications

References 34 publications

Weekend sleep intervention for workers with habitually short sleep periods

Weekend sleep intervention for workers with habitually short sleep periods

Non-Work-Related Personal Events Contribute to Depressive Symptoms in Japanese Discretionary Workers

The Impacts of Worktime Control in Context

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