Neuroscience Research Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia.
Neuroscience Research Unit, Transdisciplinary School, School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 27;20(5):4203. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054203.
The 21st century has brought a growing and significant focus on performance and health within the workforce, with the aim of improving the health and performance of the blue- and white-collar workforce. The present research investigated heart rate variability (HRV) and psychological performance between blue and white-collar workers to determine if differences were evident. A total of 101 workers ( = 48 white-collar, = 53 blue-collar, aged 19-61 years) underwent a three lead electrocardiogram to obtain HRV data during baseline (10 min) and active (working memory and attention) phases. The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery, specifically the spatial working memory, attention switching task, rapid visual processing and the spatial span, were used. Differences in neurocognitive performance measures indicated that white-collar workers were better able to detect sequences and make less errors than blue-collar workers. The heart rate variability differences showed that white-collar workers exhibit lower levels of cardiac vagal control during these neuropsychological tasks. These initial findings provide some novel insights into the relationship between occupation and psychophysiological processes and further highlight the interactions between cardiac autonomic variables and neurocognitive performance in blue and white-collar workers.
21 世纪，人们越来越关注劳动力中的绩效和健康问题，旨在提高蓝领和白领劳动力的健康和绩效。本研究旨在探究蓝领和白领工人的心率变异性（HRV）和心理绩效是否存在差异。共有 101 名工人（=48 名白领，=53 名蓝领，年龄 19-61 岁）接受了三导联心电图检查，以在基线（10 分钟）和活动（工作记忆和注意力）阶段获得 HRV 数据。使用了剑桥神经心理学测试自动化电池，特别是空间工作记忆、注意力转换任务、快速视觉处理和空间跨度。神经认知表现测量的差异表明，白领工人比蓝领工人更能检测到序列并减少错误。心率变异性的差异表明，白领工人在这些神经心理任务中表现出较低水平的心脏迷走神经控制。这些初步发现为职业与心理生理过程之间的关系提供了一些新的见解，并进一步强调了蓝领和白领工人中心血管自主变量与神经认知表现之间的相互作用。
