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Impact of Psychosocial Risk Factors on Workers’ Health: Contributions of a Subjective Health Indicator

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Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health II

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 277))

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of psychosocial risks factors on professionals’ drivers using a subjective health indicator—the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). The results shows that professionals’ drivers are exposed to huge amount of psychosocial risk factors related to, such as, high demands and work intensity, working hours, emotional demands and some work characteristics. NPH subscales (physical mobility, pain, energy level, sleep, social isolation and emotional reaction) showed significantly associations with psychosocial risk factors, but most particularly the work intensity and working hours with the dimension of emotional reaction. These results reinforce the fact that work activity in transportation remains severe in terms of working conditions, given an ever-increasing work intensification scenario, associated with time constraints and day-to-day experienced pressure. New research in this area will have important implications for the understanding of subjective health on mental health and well-being determining factors.

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    Portuguese acronym of Health and Work Survey.

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  1. Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal

    Carla Barros

  2. Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pilar Baylina

  3. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Liliana Cunha

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Barros, C., Baylina, P., Cunha, L. (2020). Impact of Psychosocial Risk Factors on Workers’ Health: Contributions of a Subjective Health Indicator. In: Arezes, P., et al. Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health II. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41486-3_60

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