Interrelationships Between Job Resources, Vigor, Exercise Habit, and Serum Lipids in Japanese Employees: a Multiple Group Path Analysis Using Medical Checkup Data
| Autor: | Yasumasa Otsuka, Kenji Sakurai, Akinori Nakata, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Akiomi Inoue, Akiko Ui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Job control Physical activity Blood lipids Coronary Disease 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Habits 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Path coefficient medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Path analysis (statistics) Exercise Triglycerides Applied Psychology business.industry Cholesterol HDL Cholesterol LDL Middle Aged medicine.disease Lipids Exercise habit Health psychology Physical therapy Female business Dyslipidemia Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 23:410-417 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7558 1070-5503 |
| Popis: | Physical inactivity is one of the major risk factors for dyslipidemia and coronary heart disease. Job resources have been identified as determinants of employees’ vigor and physical activity habits. Our first purpose was to comprehensively analyze the series of relationships of job resources, through vigor and exercise habit (i.e., one aspect of physical activity), to serum lipid levels in a sample of Japanese employees in a manufacturing company. Our second purpose was to investigate sex differences in these relationships using a multiple-group path analysis. Data were collected from 4543 employees (men = 4018, women = 525) during a medical checkup conducted in February and March 2012. Job resources (job control, skill utilization, suitable jobs, and meaningfulness of work), vigor, exercise habit, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were measured cross-sectionally. Job resources and vigor were positively associated with exercise habit in both sexes. Exercise habit was inversely associated with triglyceride (−0.03 in men and −0.01 in women, ps < 0.05) and LDL-C (−0.07 in both sexes, ps < 0.05). HDL-C was positively associated with exercise habit (0.03 in both sexes, ps < 0.05). There was no significant difference by sex in path coefficients, except for the covariance between suitable jobs and meaningfulness of work. Higher levels of job resources were associated with greater vigor, leading to exercise habit, which in turn, improved serum lipid levels. Longitudinal studies are required to demonstrate causality. |
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