[Anxiety symptoms and their association with work environment and other factors]

Anxiety symptoms and their association with work, work environment, family environment and physical health were studied by mailed questionnaire in 1379 male and 1427 female employees working in a Tokyo-based company and a Kyushu branch of a government-subsidized corporation. Subjective anxiety symptoms were found to increase with poor physical health, poor marital relationship and physical work overload and when the employee felt his superior(s) difficult to deal with. They were little influenced by whether the employee felt his work environment dangerous or not.