Relationships between temperaments, occupational stress, and insomnia among Japanese workers

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175346
• Publication Date: 2017-04-13T18:03:28Z
• Authors: Yasuhiko Deguchi; Shinichi Iwasaki; Hideyuki Ishimoto; Koichiro Ogawa; Yuichi Fukuda; Tomoko Nitta; Tomoe Mitake; Yukako Nogi; Koki Inoue
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Science; Q; R; Middle Aged; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Japan; Occupational Exposure; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Surveys and Questionnaires; 8. Economic growth; Medicine; Humans; Female; Stress, Psychological; Research Article

Insomnia among workers reduces the quality of life, contributes toward economic burden healthcare costs and losses in work performance. The relationship between occupational stress insomnia has been reported previous studies, but there little attention to temperament safety health research. aim this study was clarify relationships temperament, stress, insomnia. subjects were 133 Japanese daytime local government employees. Temperament assessed using Evaluation Memphis, Pisa, Paris, San Diego-Auto questionnaire (TEMPS-A). Occupational Generic Job Stress Questionnaire (GJSQ). Athens Scale (AIS). Stepwise multiple logistic regression analyses conducted. In a stepwise multivariate analysis, it found that higher subdivided group by "role conflict" (OR = 5.29, 95% CI, 1.61–17.32) anxious score 1.33; 1.19–1.49) associated with presence an adjusted model, whereas other factors excluded from model. limitations sample size fact only employees surveyed. This demonstrated workers' role conflict, Recognizing one's own would lead self-insight, recognition reduction conflict their supervisors or coworkers reduce prevalence workplace.