PMID- 22293244
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121010
LR  - 20190513
IS  - 1348-9585 (Electronic)
IS  - 1341-9145 (Linking)
VI  - 54
IP  - 2
DP  - 2012
TI  - Adverse psychosocial working conditions and poor quality of life among financial 
      service employees in Brazil.
PG  - 88-95
AB  - OBJECTIVES: Workers in the financial services sector are exposed to great stress 
      at work. This study investigates whether exposure to adverse psychosocial work 
      conditions is independently associated with poor health-related physical and 
      mental quality of life among financial services workers. METHODS: We studied a 
      nationwide representative sample of 2,054 workers of a large Brazilian state bank 
      in 2008. Adverse psychosocial work conditions were investigated by the 
      Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) scale and the Job content questionnaire (JCQ). 
      Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was assessed using the Medical Outcomes 
      Study Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-12). Poor mental and physical HRQL was 
      defined by the lowest quartiles of the SF-12 final score distributions. 
      Associations were investigated using multiple logistic regression analysis. 
      RESULTS: In the multivariate analysis, exposures to low control and lack of 
      social support at work (JCQ) were associated with poor HRQL in the physical 
      domain. Increasing effort-reward imbalance and overcommitment (ERI), on the other 
      hand, were associated with poor HRQL in the mental domain, with a significant 
      statistical trend. Overcommitment was also associated with poor physical HRQL. 
      CONCLUSION: The results suggest that exposure to adverse psychosocial work 
      conditions has a negative impact on both domains of HRQL among financial service 
      workers. They also indicate that ERI and DC models capture different aspects of 
      job strain.
FAU - Silva, Luiz Sergio
AU  - Silva LS
AD  - School of Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 
      Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
FAU - Barreto, Sandhi Maria
AU  - Barreto SM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120131
PL  - Australia
TA  - J Occup Health
JT  - Journal of occupational health
JID - 9616320
SB  - IM
MH  - Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Brazil
MH  - Commerce/economics/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Confidence Intervals
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Job Satisfaction
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Occupational Exposure
MH  - Occupational Health/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Odds Ratio
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Quality of Life/*psychology
MH  - Social Support
MH  - *Stress, Psychological
MH  - Workplace/psychology
EDAT- 2012/02/02 06:00
MHDA- 2012/10/12 06:00
CRDT- 2012/02/02 06:00
PHST- 2012/02/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/02/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/10/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - JST.JSTAGE/joh/11-0072-OA [pii]
AID - 10.1539/joh.11-0072-oa [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Occup Health. 2012;54(2):88-95. doi: 10.1539/joh.11-0072-oa. Epub 2012 Jan 31.