Comparison of Occupational Stress and Its Factors of Workers in An Oil Refinery / 中华劳动卫生职业病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the differences of occupational stress and its factors between petroleum refining workers and support staffs, and to propose more targeted measures to promote the health of petroleum refining and petrochemical workers.@*Methods@#A questionnaire survey was conducted among 353 petroleum refining workers and 189 employees in the logistics department using the occupational stress inventory revised edition (OSI-R) scale between June 13, 2017 and July 27, 2017.@*Results@#Among the occupational factors, there were significant differences in the job requirements, work risk, job monotony, participation in the decision-making scores among the male workers between labor group and logistics group (P<0.01) . And for female workers in the chemical group and logistics group there were also differences in the value of work control, job requirements, work monotonous, work prospects, improvement of opportunity (P<0.05) . In the aspect of personality traits, the score of work psychological control in chemical group was higher than that of the logistics group, while the organization loyalty score was lower than that of the logistics group. Be-sides, there were significant differences between chemical group and logistics group in the score of A behavior, self-esteem and anxiety traits among female group (P<0.05) . In terms of mitigating factors, there was a significant difference in social support score between chemical group and logistics group among female workers (P<0.01) . Comparison of the two groups of psychological stress showed that the mental health and anxiety status of the chemical group and the logistics group showed a difference (P<0.05) , and female workers in the chemical group job satisfaction score lower than the logistics group, but the body Complaints score higher than the logistics group.@*Conclusion@#The psychological stress response of petroleum refining workers is obviously more serious than the staff of logistics department, and there were significant differences between the two groups on occupational stress factors.