Sense of coherence is associated with reduced psychological responses to job stressors among Japanese factory workers

BMC Research Notes

Hiroaki Itoh¹  Kazuhito Yokoyama¹  Kayoko Urakawa¹ 

[1] Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan

关键词: Stress reduction;    Brief Job Stress Questionnaire;    Job stress;    Sense of coherence;   

Others  :  1166405
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-5-247

 received in 2011-10-15, accepted in 2012-05-20,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Job stress is associated with adverse health effects. The present study was conducted to examine the association between sense of coherence (SOC), as advocated by Antonovsky, and psychological responses to job stressors among Japanese workers.

Methods

A self-administered questionnaire containing a Japanese version of the 13-item SOC scale, the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire, and a self-rated health item were distributed to 1968 workers in X Prefecture. Anonymous responses were recovered by postal mail.

Results

Complete responses were received from 299 workers (response rate 15.2%, 191 males and 108 females) who consented to participate in the study. Participants were 186 office clerks, 38 sales representatives, 22 technical engineers, 16 service trade workers, eight information processing workers, eight technical experts, and 21 other workers of various types. SOC scores were associated with age, self-rated health, job title, and marriage status. According to regression analyses stratified by gender, SOC was inversely associated with tension, fatigue, anxiety, depression and subjective symptoms in males, and tension, depression and subjective symptoms in females. SOC was positively associated with vigor in both males and females.

Conclusions

Having a strong SOC may reduce worker’s negative job stress responses and increase their vigor. Longitudinal studies are required to confirm this finding.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Urakawa et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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