Tamagawa Rie, Lobb Brenda, Booth Roger
Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Appl Ergon. 2007 Sep;38(5):635-42. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.05.003. Epub 2006 Sep 25.
This study aimed to explore criteria for shift work tolerance and to investigate the relationships between personality traits and states and shift work tolerance. Eighty-nine policemen and police women completed a questionnaire, once during consecutive night shifts and again during rotating shifts, and their responses were used to assess anxiety, emotional control, positive and negative affect, health complaints, sleep quality, difficulties in social and domestic life, and perceptions about shift work. Both the criteria for tolerance and the relationship between tolerance and personality varied according to shift type. Night shift tolerance involved four factors--somatic health, flexibility, sleep and sleep need--while rotating shift tolerance involved three factors--somatic health, flexibility and fatigue. Tolerance of shift work was associated with anxiety, repressive emotional style and mood. During night shifts, anxiety was the most influential personality factor for the somatic health and sleep dimensions of shift tolerance. During rotating shifts, positive and negative moods, rather than trait personality factors, were important predictors of the somatic health and fatigue shift tolerance dimensions. These results suggest a mechanism for more effective matching of workers to suitable shift schedules.
本研究旨在探索轮班工作耐受性的标准，并调查人格特质与状态和轮班工作耐受性之间的关系。八十九名男警察和女警察完成了一份问卷，一次是在连续夜班期间，另一次是在轮班期间，他们的回答被用于评估焦虑、情绪控制、积极和消极情绪、健康投诉、睡眠质量、社交和家庭生活中的困难以及对轮班工作的看法。耐受性标准以及耐受性与人格之间的关系因轮班类型而异。夜班耐受性涉及四个因素——身体健康、灵活性、睡眠和睡眠需求——而轮班耐受性涉及三个因素——身体健康、灵活性和疲劳。轮班工作的耐受性与焦虑、压抑情绪风格和情绪有关。在夜班期间，焦虑是轮班耐受性的身体健康和睡眠维度中最具影响力的人格因素。在轮班期间，积极和消极情绪，而非特质人格因素，是身体健康和疲劳轮班耐受性维度的重要预测因素。这些结果表明了一种使工人与合适轮班时间表更有效匹配的机制。
