Challenge and Hindrance Stressors in Relation to Sleep

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• Personal Author:
  Allen TD ; French KA ; Henderson TG
• Description:
  Rationale: Research using the challenge-hindrance stressor framework shows hindrance stressors tend to have detrimental affective and work-related outcomes, whereas challenge stressors have relatively more salutary affective and work-related outcomes. The extent to which this pattern extends to health behaviors, such as sleep, is unknown. Objective: The current study examines challenge and hindrance work stressors in relation to sleep quantity and quality. Methods We use survey data from the MIDUS II (Phase 1 and Phase 4) to test the relationship between self-reported challenge and hindrance stressors and assessments of sleep, including cross-sectional and prospective indicators of sleep quantity, sleep quality (sleep onset latency, sleep disturbance), and sleepiness. Results: Hindrance stressors are associated with prospective sleep quantity, as well as cross-sectional and prospective sleep quality and sleepiness. Further, the pattern of results for sleep quality and sleepiness reflects the expected challenge-hindrance pattern, such that hindrance stressors are more strongly associated with poor sleep quality and sleepiness than are challenge stressors. The same challenge-hindrance pattern was not significant sleep quantity. Work hours and time lag generally did not moderate associations between work stressors and sleep. Conclusion: The challenge-hindrance pattern holds for sleep quality and sleepiness, but not sleep quantity. Relationships appear to be consistent across time and differences in work hours. Results have implications for expanding the challenge-hindrance stressor framework and underline the importance of distinguishing between different types of stressors and sleep dimensions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Work Demands Challenge Hindrance Job Stress Psychological Stress Psychosocial Factors Sleep Disorders Stressors
• ISSN:
  0277-9536
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  145-153
• Volume:
  222
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058351
• Citation:
  Soc Sci Med 2019 Feb; 222:145-153
• Contact Point Address:
  Kimberly A. French, School of Psychology, 648 Cherry St, NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States
• Email:
  kfrench9@gatech.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Social Science and Medicine
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221467/cdc_221467_DS1.pdf
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