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[Occupational stress and job insecurity in men working in a university]
A Di Donato1, L Di Giampaolo, L Forcella
1Unità Operativa di Medicina del Lavoro, Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti.
Abstract:
77 men working in a university were investigated. Trait and state anxiety were determined by STAI I and STAI II; job strain (job demand/decision latitude), social support and job insecurity were analysed by a 46 item Karasek's questionnaire and subjective symptoms by a 12 item test. The employees of a library (mean age 49 years), in contact with students, showed significantly higher values of job strain, STAI I, STAI II and subjective symptoms than a control group of employees with similar age. Young employees and sanitary staff with temporary employment showed higher level of job insecurity than control subjects with stable position. Blood cytotoxic activity (reported in another study) was significantly lower in the old employees with job strain or in the young employees with job insecurity (but not in the sanitary staff) than in the controls; this demonstrates that not only occupational stress but also job insecurity may play an important role in affecting the health status.
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