Overtime work and Chinese workers' physical and mental health: The mediating role of social support and work value awareness.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Work-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.3233/WOR-240041

Yao Jiang, Fan Yang

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Abstract

Background: China was once called the world's factory. Chinese workers had long weekly working hours. However, the empirical results of the relationship between overtime work and workers' health are mixed and remain inconclusive.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate how overtime work influenced workers' physical and mental health and the role of lifestyles, social support, and work value awareness.

Methods: Data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey 2016 (N = 14,205) was used. The instrumental variable approach was employed to overcome the endogeneity problem between overtime work and workers' health. The bootstrapping method was conducted to elicit the role of lifestyles, social support, and work value awareness.

Results: The results indicated that overtime work significantly and negatively influenced Chinese workers' physical and mental health. The results of the bootstrapping suggested that workers' social support and work value awareness partially mediated the relationship between overtime work and their physical and mental health. However, the mediating role of lifestyles was insignificant.

Conclusion: Through using big data with national representativeness, this study suggests that overtime work negatively influences Chinese workers' physical and mental health. Our findings provide policy implications for improving workers' health rights and well-being in emerging economies.

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加班与中国工人的身心健康：社会支持和工作价值意识的中介作用。

背景：中国曾被称为世界工厂：中国曾被称为世界工厂。中国工人的每周工作时间很长。然而，关于加班与工人健康之间关系的实证研究结果不一，尚无定论：本研究旨在探讨加班对工人身心健康的影响，以及生活方式、社会支持和工作价值意识的作用：方法：采用2016年中国劳动力动态调查数据（N=14205）。采用工具变量法克服加班与劳动者健康之间的内生性问题。采用引导法来揭示生活方式、社会支持和工作价值意识的作用：结果表明，加班对中国工人的身心健康有显著的负面影响。引导分析的结果表明，劳动者的社会支持和工作价值意识在一定程度上调节了加班与身心健康之间的关系。结论：通过使用具有全国代表性的大数据，本研究表明加班对中国劳动者的身心健康有负面影响。我们的研究结果为改善新兴经济体工人的健康权利和福祉提供了政策启示。

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Work-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

30.40%

发文量

739

期刊介绍： WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the entire scope of the occupation of work. The journal''s subtitle has been deliberately laid out: The first goal is the prevention of illness, injury, and disability. When this goal is not achievable, the attention focuses on assessment to design client-centered intervention, rehabilitation, treatment, or controls that use scientific evidence to support best practice.