Perception of Whole Day Workload as a Mediator Between Activity Engagement and Stress in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes

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• Personal Author:
  Gonzalez JS ; Hernandez R ; Jin H ; Pyatak EA ; Roll SC ; Schneider S
• Description:
  Associations between various forms of activity engagement (e.g. work, leisure) and the experience of stress in workers have been widely documented. The mechanisms underlying these effects, however, are not fully understood. Our goal was to investigate if perceived whole day workload accounted for the relationships between daily frequencies of activities (i.e. work hours and leisure/rest) and daily stress. We analysed data from 56 workers with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who completed approximately two weeks of intensive longitudinal assessments. Daily whole day workload was measured with an adapted version of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX). A variety of occupations were reported, including lawyer, housekeeper and teacher. In multilevel path analyses, day-to-day changes in whole day workload mediated 67% (p < .001), 61% (p < .001), 38% (p < .001), and 55% (p < .001) of the within-person relationships between stress and work hours, rest frequency, active leisure frequency, and day of week, respectively. Our results provided evidence that whole day workload perception may contribute to the processes linking daily activities with daily stress in workers with T1D. Perceived whole day workload may deserve greater attention as a possible stress intervention target, ones that perhaps ergonomists would be especially suited to address. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Blood Ergonomics Hematologic Diseases Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Activity Levels Author Keywords: Workload Blood Sugar Disorders Human Factors Engineering Job Stress Rest Stress Type 1 Diabetes Work Hours Work Schedules
• ISSN:
  1463-922X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  67-85
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069315
• Citation:
  Theor Issues Ergon Sci 2024 Jan; 25(1):67-85
• Contact Point Address:
  Raymond Hernandez, USC Dornsife Center for Economic & Social Research, University of Southern California, 635 Downey Way, VPD 405, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3332, USA
• Email:
  hray57024@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5751f07975b91a8faabfc840e779cf2ee778294db39f5917a319fed67d06921b6349d0d491c8ac520c1a46372542f74b64fa086331b12d913a9a01093bbf9eee
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207815/cdc_207815_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.67 MB ]