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Individual differences in tolerance to shift work – A systematic review

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This paper systematically review literature published investigating the relation between individual differences such as age, gender, personality, morningness/eveningness as well as biological variables and different measures of shift work tolerance from 1998 till 2009 to indicate that young age, male gender, low scores on morningness, high scores on flexibility andLow scores on languidity are related to higher shift workolerance.
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This article is published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 387 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality & Shift work.

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The Relations Between Job Demands, Basic Psychological Needs and Work-to-Life Conflict: A Cross-Sectional Study Within the Norwegian Retail Industry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined relations between work-to-life conflict, job demands and satisfaction of basic psychological needs among employees in the Norwegian retail industry, and found that the demands and needs were related to work to life conflict.
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Shift Work Impact to Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression and Sleep Quality Among Nurses

TL;DR: Research results showed that nurses in shifts have higher mean value scores than day time working nurses in all indicators – depression, anxiety and sleep quality.
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Psychosocial Hazards and Risks

TL;DR: In fact, it has been suggested that job-related deaths in this occupational group are more often caused by psychosocial hazards (e.g., stress and stress-related medical issues 33 %) than by direct exposure to the risk of injury as mentioned in this paper.
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Sleep problem but not chronotype is associated with retirement from shift work: a cross-sectional retrospective study

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between chronotype, sleep problems and long-term maladaptive retirement from shift work and short-term (perceived tolerance of shift work) tolerance in community-dwelling people who worked as a shift worker for over a year.
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The association between shift work disorder and turnover intention among nurses

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the association between shift work disorder and turnover intention among nurses, and the individual and work-related correlates of turnover intention, and found that shift-work disorder is associated with turnover intention.
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Is there an association between shift work and having a metabolic syndrome? Results from a population based study of 27 485 people

TL;DR: Obesity, high triglycerides, and low concentrations of HDL cholesterol seem to cluster together more often in shift workers than in day workers, which might indicate an association between shift work and the metabolic syndrome.
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PER3 Polymorphism Predicts Sleep Structure and Waking Performance

TL;DR: The data show that this polymorphism in PER3 predicts individual differences in the sleep-loss-induced decrement in performance and that this differential susceptibility may be mediated by its effects on sleep homeostasis.
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Metabolic disturbances in male workers with rotating three-shift work. Results of the WOLF study

TL;DR: A significant association between shift work and lipid disturbances (i.e. low HDL-cholesterol and high triglyceride levels) was found and any association with hyperglycaemia was found.
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Towards a Predictive Test of Adjustment to Shift Work

TL;DR: It is concluded that it may prove feasible to develop a questionnaire that would predict the degree to which people's rhythms would adjust to shift work, and that flexibility of sleeping habits and the ability to overcome drowsiness should be components of such a questionnaire.
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