Gender differences in a resources-demands model in the general population

BMC Public Health

Elmar Brähler²  Cornelia Albani³  Burghard F Klapp⁴  Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent¹ 

[1] Institute and Policlinic for Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr 52 (Haus W26), Hamburg 20246, Germany;Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Universal Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhinland-Palatinate, Germany;Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany, Ph.-Rosenthal-Str. 55, Leipzig 04103, Germany;Department of Psychosomatis, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin 10117, Germany

关键词: General population;    Exhaustion;    Chronic work stress;    Resources;    Gender;   

Others  :  1128082
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-902

 received in 2014-01-20, accepted in 2014-08-15,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The population-based study examined postulated effects, derived from a resources-demands-model about gender-related aspects of self-efficacy, optimism, chronic stress, and exhaustion.

Methods

Data acquisition was carried out by a market research institute with a multi-topic questionnaire in the general population (N = 2,552). Instruments administered were the Questionnaire for Self-Efficacy and Optimism, the Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress, and the Chalder-Fatigue-Scale. Households and target persons were selected randomly. The analyses focused on structural equation modeling.

Results

There were significant differences in structural relations among the resource paths. In particular, significant gender differences were found with respect to self-efficacy, and among the exhaustion paths, namely in the mental dimension of exhaustion. The observed measures of chronic stress were found to be operating equivalently for both genders. Results suggest that resources play an important role in the understanding of how chronic stress is preceded and may lead to exhaustion in both genders.

Conclusion

Personal resources seem to be more expressed by men than by woman, for whom the relation of resources to health is of greater importance than for men.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Kocalevent et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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