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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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Age-Aware Organizations and the Relationship Between Shift Work and Psychological Well-being Across the Lifespan

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors integrate lifespan psychology and HR strategy research to examine the relationship between shift work and psychological well-being across working lives, and then examine how the implementation of organizational age structure analysis may buffer this relationship.
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Individual and Societal Impact

TL;DR: In the modern 24-h society, the sleep-wake cycle is progressively losing its close association with the dark/light alternation as work and leisure activities have progressively spread to the whole day and colonized the night hours.
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Sleep disturbances among women in a Subarctic region: a nationwide study

TL;DR: Severe sleep problems were more prevalent among young and late-midlife women, those who were single, had children, socio-economic challenges, worked shifts, and flexible hours, and obesity, suboptimal health behaviors, excessive screen time, and mental health problems were associated with severe sleep problems.
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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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