Can work make you sick? A meta-analysis of the relationships between job stressors and physical symptoms.

A meta-analysis of 79 studies reporting cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between physical symptoms and various occupational stressors was conducted. Stressors were organizational constraints, interpersonal conflict, role conflict, role ambiguity, workload, work hours, and lack of contr...

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Publicado en:Work & Stress Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Autores principales: Nixon, Ashley E., Mazzola, Joseph J., Bauer, Jeremy, Krueger, Jeremy R., Spector, Paul E.
Formato: meta analysis research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Mar2011
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          Nixon, Ashley E.
          Mazzola, Joseph J.
          Bauer, Jeremy
          Krueger, Jeremy R.
          Spector, Paul E.
        affil: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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          Stress, Occupational Etiology
          Stress, Occupational Symptoms
          Work
          Funding Source
          Meta Analysis
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Prospective Studies
          Job Characteristics
          Role Conflict
          Workload
          Autonomy
          Quantitative Studies
          Interpersonal Relations
          Models, Theoretical
          Back Pain
          Headache
          Sleep Disorders
          Dizziness
          Fatigue
          Appetite
          Gastrointestinal Diseases
          Stress, Physiological
          Stress, Occupational Physiopathology
          Eye Diseases
          Psycinfo
          Medline
          Role Stress
          Human
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      ab: A meta-analysis of 79 studies reporting cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between physical symptoms and various occupational stressors was conducted. Stressors were organizational constraints, interpersonal conflict, role conflict, role ambiguity, workload, work hours, and lack of control. The relationships between stressors and eight physical symptoms were quantitatively summarized and contrasted, for both individual symptoms and composite symptom scales. All of the occupational stressors were significantly related to physical symptoms in cross-sectional analyses, and the effect sizes of these relationships varied both by the stressor and the individual symptom examined. The longitudinal relationships were similar to the cross-sectional results, and provided some evidence of temporal consistency of the occupational stressorphysical symptom relationship. Organizational constraints and interpersonal conflict had the strongest relationships with symptoms in both the cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Gastrointestinal problems and sleep disturbances were significantly related to more stressors than other symptoms examined. These findings show that it is important to examine physical symptoms, as they are related to a wide range of job stressors and these relationships prevail over time. Potential underlying mechanisms, including the immediacy of physiological reactions to stressors, participants' attributions concerning stressor-physical symptom relationships, and the possible multidimensional nature of symptoms, are proposed and discussed.
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