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It has been found that workers are suffering from some mental and physical symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, loneliness. Therefore, the question can be raised on whether workers exposed to noise suffer from various degrees of depression and Loneliness. Do some of the individual characteristics of these workers affect these levels? Two tests of depression and Loneliness were applied on a sample of 277 workers exposed to high noise levels. The results showed that 3.2% of the study sample suffer from high level of depression, while 54.9% have Average level, only 36.8 have low level, and 5.1% have very low level. Moreover, le level of depression had high significant positive correlation of (0.258**) with age and significant negative correlation of (0.127*), with sex as well as high significant negative correlation of (−0.327**), with the type of job. The results of loneliness test showed that about 2.53% of the subjects have low level of loneliness, while 23.11% have Average level. Most important however is that 63.18% have high level of loneliness and even more than 11.19% have high level of loneliness. It should be noticed that the results of the loneliness are higher than those of depression despite the fact that there was a significant positive correlation (0.134*) between them. Perhaps this very high percentage suffering from loneliness could be explained as indication or warning towards an increase of depression among subjects. It seems that some workers exposed to high level of noise are suffering from depression and loneliness. However, further studies are necessary to control other factors. |
