Relationship between Job Stress and Self-Rated Health among Japanese Full-Time Occupational Physicians
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
;
: 227-232, 2005.
Article
in Japanese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-361414
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
We investigated relationships between job stress and self-rated health among Japanese full-time occupational physicians (OPs).Methods:
In 2000, we mailed self-administrated questionnaires to 716 OPs. Of these OPs, 349 (49%) returned sufficiently completed questionnaires for analyses. Oblique-rotated principal factor analysis of the job stress questionnaire extracted three components; low understanding of occupational health services in companies (low understanding), conflicts between occupational physicians and their coworkers (conflicts), and discrepancies between occupational physicians’ routine work and occupational health services (discrepancies).Results:
The model, in which low understanding contributed to self-rated health through job satisfaction and self-rated health was influenced by job satisfaction and discrepancies, provided a good fit to the data.Conclusions:
We found that a potential relationship between job stress and self-rated health among Japanese full-time OPs. The present results implied that among full-time OPs, low understanding contributed negatively to self-rated health through job satisfaction, and that self-rated health was influenced positively by job satisfaction and negatively by discrepancies.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Health
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Comprehension
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Job Satisfaction
/
Occupations
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
Japanese
Journal:
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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