Is tolerance to shiftwork predictable from individual difference measures?

被引:25
作者
Kaliterna, L [1 ]
Vidacek, S [1 ]
Prizmic, Z [1 ]
Radosevic-Vidacek, B [1 ]
机构
[1] INST MED RES & OCCUPAT HLTH, ZAGREB 10001, CROATIA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
individual differences; tolerance to shiftwork; concurrent validity; predictive validity;
D O I
10.1080/02678379508256548
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
This study was aimed at evaluating the roost important relations between individual characteristics of shiftworkers and their subjective health complaints, obtained by cross-sectional and longitudinal procedures. A total of 604 shiftworkers and 185 young subjects who were going to enter shiftwork were examined by means of individual difference and subjective health questionnaires. The questionnaires were administered concurrently to the group of workers already involved in shiftwork. In the other group studied, the questionnaires were administered before they entered shiftwork, and subjective health was re-examined after the first and third year of work on shifts. More health complaints were reported by the group of older workers and those with longer shiftwork experience, with higher scores of neuroticism, hard-driving and competitiveness, speed and impatience, and rigidity of sleeping habits, and lower scores on relaxedness, efficiency and vigorousness. However, the correlations between these dimensions, when taken before entering shiftwork, and subjective health complaints obtained after a few years working on shifts were small or absent, indicating low validity of the individual difference measures for predicting subsequent health problems in shiftworkers.
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页码:140 / 147
页数:8
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