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Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory
Various work-related issues including mental health have been described for the electronic industry. Although East Asian countries play important roles in the electronics industry, the association between job demands and emotional symptoms has been rarely examined. The present study recruited 603 wo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28925986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14091085 |
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author | Huang, Wei-Lieh Guo, Yue Leon Chen, Pau-Chung Wang, Jui Chu, Po-Ching |
author_facet | Huang, Wei-Lieh Guo, Yue Leon Chen, Pau-Chung Wang, Jui Chu, Po-Ching |
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description | Various work-related issues including mental health have been described for the electronic industry. Although East Asian countries play important roles in the electronics industry, the association between job demands and emotional symptoms has been rarely examined. The present study recruited 603 workers from either office or clean room environments in an electronics factory in Taiwan. Their personal factors, work-related factors, and emotional symptoms were assessed by a self-administered questionnaire. The symptoms of depression and hostility were reported in 24.88% and 24.38% of the subjects, respectively, while 14.93% reported both. A multivariate analysis showed that, overall, women workers were more likely to have emotional symptoms than male workers (odds ration (OR) = 1.50, 95% CI = 1.02–2.18). Among clean room workers, working under high pressure (OR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.05–3.21), conflicting demands (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.30–3.57), and social isolation at work (OR = 2.99, 95% CI = 1.23–7.30) were associated with emotional symptoms. The findings suggest that in the Asian electronics industry, for women, working under high pressure, conflicting demands, and social isolation at work are risk factors for emotional symptoms, especially for clean room workers. Further large-scale, longitudinal studies are necessary to confirm and prevent the mental health problems in this fast-evolving, highly competitive industry. |
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spelling | pubmed-56156222017-09-30 Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory Huang, Wei-Lieh Guo, Yue Leon Chen, Pau-Chung Wang, Jui Chu, Po-Ching Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Various work-related issues including mental health have been described for the electronic industry. Although East Asian countries play important roles in the electronics industry, the association between job demands and emotional symptoms has been rarely examined. The present study recruited 603 workers from either office or clean room environments in an electronics factory in Taiwan. Their personal factors, work-related factors, and emotional symptoms were assessed by a self-administered questionnaire. The symptoms of depression and hostility were reported in 24.88% and 24.38% of the subjects, respectively, while 14.93% reported both. A multivariate analysis showed that, overall, women workers were more likely to have emotional symptoms than male workers (odds ration (OR) = 1.50, 95% CI = 1.02–2.18). Among clean room workers, working under high pressure (OR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.05–3.21), conflicting demands (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.30–3.57), and social isolation at work (OR = 2.99, 95% CI = 1.23–7.30) were associated with emotional symptoms. The findings suggest that in the Asian electronics industry, for women, working under high pressure, conflicting demands, and social isolation at work are risk factors for emotional symptoms, especially for clean room workers. Further large-scale, longitudinal studies are necessary to confirm and prevent the mental health problems in this fast-evolving, highly competitive industry. MDPI 2017-09-19 2017-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5615622/ /pubmed/28925986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14091085 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Huang, Wei-Lieh Guo, Yue Leon Chen, Pau-Chung Wang, Jui Chu, Po-Ching Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title | Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title_full | Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title_fullStr | Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title_short | Association between Emotional Symptoms and Job Demands in an Asian Electronics Factory |
title_sort | association between emotional symptoms and job demands in an asian electronics factory |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28925986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14091085 |
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