Author : Lisa Rusch
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Book Synopsis Predictors of Stress in American Workers by : Lisa Rusch
Download or read book Predictors of Stress in American Workers written by Lisa Rusch and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic work stress is a common problem in the United States, contributing to a myriad of negative health outcomes including poor sleep and burnout in workers. Furthermore, workers with chronic health conditions may be at increased risk to the hazards of work stress. Although several psychological theories exist which provide context for work stress, the Job Demands-Resources Model suggests that work stress arises when job demands exceed available resources which can help alleviate the strain. Demands require ongoing efforts that pull from resources which reduce demands and their associated psychological or physiological costs. In line with the Total Worker Health® concept of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, demands and resources can arise from both the work and personal realms and provide potential avenues for interventions. Although a multitude of demands and resources exist, many of which have been examined in the literature, leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is a personal resource recommended by the CDC to support well-being, in part by promoting healthy sleep and reducing work-related burnout. Little is known about the ability of LTPA to mitigate the effects of job demands on workers, nor its effectiveness in altering worker well-being compared to other resources and demands. The purpose of this thesis was to identify the job and personal demands and resources that influence worker sleep and burnout in a national group of workers as well as in workers with a a chronic health condition, breast cancer survivors, with special attention given to LTPA. These cross-sectional studies applied multivariate logistic regression analysis to calculate adjusted odds ratios for nonrestorative sleep (NRS), poor quality sleep, and the components of burnout: exhaustion and disengagement. Primary predictors were job demands (physical and psychological) and resources (coworker support, supervisor support, and decision latitude) and personal demands (family-to-work conflict, commute time, and health-to-work conflict) and resources (good health and LTPA). We found, in our national sample, that only the sleep of workers in the most and least physically demanding jobs benefited from participation in LTPA, with those workers most active at work requiring less LTPA to benefit restorative sleep. Also, high psychological demands and low supervisor and coworker support were associated with high exhaustion and disengagement and low decision latitude with high disengagement only. Surprisingly, good and fair health (compared to excellent health) and no LTPA (compared to meeting recommendations) were associated with reduced odds of high exhaustion. In a sample of breast cancer survivors, only energy-related health-to-work conflict was associated with increased odds of poor quality sleep. In conclusion, job and personal demands and resources affect sleep and burnout in American workers, but not always as expected and differently in workers with a chronic condition.