Female workers with long working hours are more likely to have depressive symptoms when having family-to-work conflict.

IF 2.6 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1007/s00420-023-02024-0

Garin Lee, Ji-Hwan Kim, Seung-Sup Kim

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Abstract

Purpose: Workers' health can be influenced by risk factors from their family environments as well as their work environments. This paper sought to examine how the association between long working hours and depressive symptoms differs based on the level of FWC after being stratified by worker's gender.

Methods: We used the dataset of 20,384 full-time wage workers from the sixth Korean Working Conditions Survey (2020). Long working hours were defined as working 52 h or more per week. FWC was measured using a 2-item questionnaire, and depressive symptoms were measured using the WHO-5 well-being index. Applying modified Poisson regression, we evaluated how the association between long working hours and depressive symptoms differs by the level of FWC male and female workers separately.

Results: In the analysis of the female workers, long working hours were associated with depressive symptoms in the high FWC group (PR 1.35, 95% CI 1.17, 1.55) after adjusting for potential confounders whereas no association was observed in the low FWC group. Among the male workers, a statistically significant association was observed in both high FWC (PR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07, 1.38) and low FWC (PR 1.28, 95% CI 1.12, 1.47) groups.

Conclusion: FWC may act as a workplace stressor that potentially amplifies the health impact of long working hours among female workers.

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工作时间长的女工在家庭与工作发生冲突时更容易出现抑郁症状。

目的：工人的健康可能受到家庭环境和工作环境中风险因素的影响。本文试图研究按工人性别分层后，长工作时间与抑郁症状之间的关系如何因家庭工作环境水平的不同而不同：我们使用了韩国第六次工作条件调查（2020 年）中 20,384 名全职工资劳动者的数据集。每周工作 52 小时或以上即为长时间工作。FWC 采用 2 个项目的问卷进行测量，抑郁症状采用 WHO-5 幸福指数进行测量。我们采用修正的泊松回归方法，分别评估了男女工人的 FWC 水平不同，长时间工作与抑郁症状之间的关系有何不同：在对女工的分析中，在调整了潜在的混杂因素后，长时间工作与高 FWC 组的抑郁症状有关（PR 为 1.35，95% CI 为 1.17，1.55），而在低 FWC 组未观察到任何关联。在男性工人中，高 FWC 组（PR 为 1.22，95% CI 为 1.07，1.38）和低 FWC 组（PR 为 1.28，95% CI 为 1.12，1.47）均观察到有统计学意义的关联：结论：FWC 可能是一种工作场所压力源，有可能放大长时间工作对女工健康的影响。

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International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

5.60

自引率

6.70%

发文量

127

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health publishes Editorials, Review Articles, Original Articles, and Letters to the Editor. It welcomes any manuscripts dealing with occupational or ambient environmental problems, with a special interest in research at the interface of occupational health and clinical medicine. The scope ranges from Biological Monitoring to Dermatology, from Fibers and Dust to Human Toxicology, from Nanomaterials and Ultra-fine Dust to Night- and Shift Work, from Psycho-mental Distress and Burnout to Vibrations. A complete list of topics can be found on the right-hand side under For authors and editors. In addition, all papers should be based on present-day standards and relate to: -Clinical and epidemiological studies on morbidity and mortality -Clinical epidemiological studies on the parameters relevant to the estimation of health risks -Human experimental studies on environmental health effects. Animal experiments are only acceptable if relevant to pathogenic aspects. -Methods for studying the topics mentioned above.