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Role perceptions, job satisfaction, and attitudes towards shiftwork of workers in different shift systems as related to situational and personal factors
F. Nachreiner
- pp 232-243
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In this paper, the authors conducted a survey on the perception of the social situation and on the attitudes and subjective evaluations of health states in shiftworkers in continuous-working industries and found that shiftworkers perceived social situation as a negative experience.Abstract:
In the context of a research project on the problems of shiftwork in “continuous-working” industries we conducted a survey on the perception of the social situation and on the attitudes and subjective evaluations of health states in shiftworkers.read more
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The impact of shift and night work on health
TL;DR: Shift work, in particular night work, can have a negative impact on health and well-being of workers as it can cause disturbances of the normal circadian rhythms of the psychophysiological functions.
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The Standard Shiftwork Index: a battery of questionnaires for assessing shiftwork-related problems
TL;DR: In this article, a battery of selfreport questionnaires has been developed, which might usefully be employed in assessing the impact of different types of shift systems on large groups of individuals The scales included reflect the most pertinent issues within shiftwork research, and were chosen on the basis of being both relatively short, easy to administer, and having good psychometric properties.
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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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The impact of night work on psychological well-being.
Philip Bohle,Andrew J. Tilley +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that organisational, behavioural, and physiological factors moderate the impact of night work on psychological well-being, and personality factors do not.
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Tolerance to shift work-how does it relate to sleep and wakefulness?
TL;DR: Satisfaction with the shift schedule seems to reflect how well the shift workers were coping with the schedule, and the increase of sleep/wake problems within the work period for the dissatisfied shift workers is related to increased sensitivity to curtailed and displaced sleep.