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Shiftwork and environment as interactive predictors of work perceptions.

Katharine R Parkes¹

¹Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. kathy.parkes@psy.ox.ac.uk

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

|October 23, 2003

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Shiftwork negatively impacts the perceived work environment, especially onshore. This highlights the importance of work environment factors in understanding shiftworker health risks.

Area of Science:

Occupational Health
Environmental Psychology
Industrial Sociology

Background:

Shiftwork is associated with increased health risks compared to daywork.
The work environment is a potential contributing factor to these adverse outcomes.
Understanding the interplay between work environment and shiftwork is crucial for worker well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between perceived work environment and shiftwork in the UK oil industry.
To examine how objective work environment (onshore vs. offshore) moderates the effects of shiftwork on perceived environment.
To explore the influence of individual factors on these relationships.

Main Methods:

Analysis of perceived work environment measures (stressors, demand, control, support, safety) from 1,867 UK oil industry personnel.

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Comparison between shiftworkers (day/night rotation) and dayworkers.

Consideration of onshore vs. offshore work locations.

Inclusion of covariates: age, education, job type, and negative affectivity.

Main Results:

A significant interaction between work environment and shiftwork was found.
Onshore shiftworkers reported significantly less favorable work environments than onshore dayworkers.
The difference in perceived environment between shiftworkers and dayworkers was less pronounced offshore.

Conclusions:

The work environment significantly influences the experience of shiftwork.
Onshore environments pose greater challenges for shiftworkers' perceived well-being.
The findings support the demand-control-support model of work stress in the context of shiftwork.