PMID- 24590829
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150706
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1532-7558 (Electronic)
IS  - 1070-5503 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Feb
TI  - Job stress and agentic-communal personality traits related to serum cortisol 
      levels of male workers in a Japanese medium-sized company: a cross-sectional 
      study.
PG  - 11-7
LID - 10.1007/s12529-014-9403-9 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Although serum cortisol is a widely accepted index of stress levels, 
      associations between job stress and cortisol levels have been inconsistent. 
      Individual differences in personality traits were discussed as one compelling 
      explanation for this discrepancy. Agentic-communal personality traits have been 
      examined as possible predictive factors for psychological stress. PURPOSE: This 
      study investigated correlations among agentic-communal personality traits and 
      serum cortisol levels. It was also investigated whether job stress levels 
      modified correlations between agentic-communal personality and cortisol levels. 
      METHODS: Participants were 198 male workers (mean age = 52.2 years) employed by a 
      shipbuilding company in Japan. Questionnaire data and blood samples were 
      collected during an annual health checkup. Participants completed a self-report 
      questionnaire that included the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) that assesses job 
      control as job stress levels the Communion-Agency scale (CAS) and questions 
      regarding health behaviors. RESULTS: Communion positively correlated with serum 
      cortisol levels and unmitigated agency negatively correlated with serum cortisol 
      levels. Stratified by job control, communion positively correlated with serum 
      cortisol levels and agency negatively correlated with serum cortisol levels in 
      participants with low levels of job control. Unmitigated agency negatively 
      correlated with serum cortisol levels in participants with high levels of job 
      control. CONCLUSION: Levels of job control may modify correlations of 
      gender-related personality with serum cortisol levels. Especially with exposure 
      to high job stress, male workers with high femininity (i.e., high communion and 
      low agency) were more likely to have a high stress response as measured by serum 
      cortisol levels.
FAU - Hirokawa, Kumi
AU  - Hirokawa K
AD  - Department of Nursing, Baika Women's University, 2-19-5 Shukunosho, Ibaraki, 
      Osaka, 567-8578, Japan, k-umi@umin.ac.jp.
FAU - Taniguchi, Toshiyo
AU  - Taniguchi T
FAU - Fujii, Yasuhito
AU  - Fujii Y
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Behav Med
JT  - International journal of behavioral medicine
JID - 9421097
RN  - WI4X0X7BPJ (Hydrocortisone)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Employment/*psychology
MH  - Health Behavior
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hydrocortisone/*blood
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Personality
MH  - Self Report
MH  - Stress, Psychological/*epidemiology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2014/03/05 06:00
MHDA- 2015/07/07 06:00
CRDT- 2014/03/05 06:00
PHST- 2014/03/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/03/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/07/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s12529-014-9403-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Behav Med. 2015 Feb;22(1):11-7. doi: 10.1007/s12529-014-9403-9.