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Gender, burnout and work-related stress

Nancy McCormack, +1 more
- pp 137-150
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The authors discusses gender, burnout and work-related stress, and the role gender plays with regard to work-life balance, pay, career advancement, stress, mental health and physical health.
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Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men. Commentary

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of work stress on diagnosed depression and anxiety in young working adults was tested by the Dunedin study, a 1972-1973 longitudinal birth cohort assessed most recently in 2004-2005 at age 32 (n=972, 96% of 1015 cohort members still alive).

Job strain and early atherosclerosis: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study

TL;DR: In men, job strain was associated with increased IMT after adjustment for age, and this association was not attenuated by additional adjustment for established risk factors of coronary heart disease.

Role of Personality Characteristics and Family Communication Patterns in Predicting Couple Burnout among Employee in Iranian Oil Terminals Co

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of family communication patterns in predicting couple burnout in employees of Iranian Oil Terminals Company and found that the except openness factor, other personality characteristics had significant relation with couple burn out and this relation for Neuroticism was positive significant.
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Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study

TL;DR: A dose-response relation was found between exposure to work stressors over 14 years and risk of the metabolic syndrome, independent of other relevant risk factors, and provides evidence for the biological plausibility of the link between psychosocial stressors from everyday life and heart disease.
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Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men.

TL;DR: Work stress appears to precipitate diagnosable depression and anxiety in previously healthy young workers, and helping workers cope with work stress or reducing work stress levels could prevent the occurrence of clinically significant depression and Anxiety.
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Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men. Commentary

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of work stress on diagnosed depression and anxiety in young working adults was tested by the Dunedin study, a 1972-1973 longitudinal birth cohort assessed most recently in 2004-2005 at age 32 (n=972, 96% of 1015 cohort members still alive).
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Stress on and off the job as related to sex and occupational status in white‐collar workers

TL;DR: In this paper, 60 healthy non-smoking white-collar employees, aged 30-50, from a large corporation in Sweden participated in the study and each participant was examined individually with regard to cardiovascular and neuroendocrine functions and self-reports for 12 consecutive hours under each of two conditions: (1) a normal day at work (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and after work (6-9 p.,m.), and (2) for the same time period during work free conditions at home.
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Association between psychosocial work characteristics and health functioning in American women: prospective study

TL;DR: Adverse psychosocial work conditions are important predictors of poor functional status and its decline over time in working women in the United States.
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