High stress jobs can reduce life span, says study
Posted on: 19/Oct/2016 8:58:47 AM
A new study conducted by researchers from the Indiana University Kelley School of
Business in the US has warned that people in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow are likely to die younger than those who have more flexibility in their jobs. The study was published in the journal Personnel Psychology.
Speaking about this, the researchers said, We explored job demands, or the amount of work, time pressure and concentration demands of a job and job control or the amount of discretion one has over making decisions at work, as joint predictors of death. These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom in decision-making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee health if also paired with freedom in decision-making. You can avoid the negative health consequences if you allow them to set their own goals, set their own schedules, prioritise their decision-making and the like.
When you don`t have the necessary resources to deal with a demanding job, you do this other stuff. You might eat more, you might smoke, you might engage in some of these things to cope with it. Cancer research studies have found a correlation between eating poorly and developing the disease; at 55 per cent, cancer was the leading cause of death in the study. Other leading causes of death were circulatory system ailments, 22 per cent; and respiratory system ailments, 8 per cent. What we found is that those people that are in entry-level service jobs and construction jobs have pretty high death rates, more so than people in professional jobs and office positions. Interestingly, we found a really low rate of death among agricultural workers.
