Job stress and health in working women
| Autor: | Ethel N. Sassenrath, Donna Stringer-Moore, Fran Pepitone-Arreola-Rockwell, Barbara Sommer, Patricia Rozee-Koker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Employment
Hypnosis medicine.medical_specialty Job stress Relaxation (psychology) Clerical occupations business.industry Salaries and Fringe Benefits Life satisfaction Life Change Events Psychiatry and Mental health Quality of life Stress (linguistics) medicine Quality of Life Anxiety Humans Female Women medicine.symptom Psychiatry business Menstruation Disturbances Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of human stress. 7(4) |
| ISSN: | 0097-840X |
| Popis: | A questionnaire assessing subjective level of job stress and physical health over the past two years was completed by 173 women in university (non-faculty) positions. Health was divided into two categories: menstrual dysfunction and other non-menstrual symptoms. Two samples, matched for age, were selected: women in high-paying positions (N = 72) and women in low-paying positions (N = 101). Respondents also answered a Recent Life Changes Questionnaire (RLCQ) and an eight-item life satisfaction list. The hypothesis of a positive relationship between job stress and menstrual dysfunction was rejected. The predicted relationship held for non-menstrual symptoms. Subjective stress, RLCQ score, and life satisfaction accounted for 21% of the variance in non-menstrual symptoms. Thus, while both RLCQ and subjective job stress were related to symptom reports, their contributions were independent of one another. The female reproductive system does not seem particularly vulnerable to the levels of stress experienced in professional, managerial, and clerical occupations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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