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IEA 2018: Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) pp 1008–1011Cite as

Sleep Quality, Job Stress and Job Performance in Middle Age Women

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Researchers have pointed out that work stress could cause poor sleep quality. Many women with menopause symptoms complained about couldn’t fall asleep, easy to wake up and difficult to stay asleep. Long term poor sleep quality not only affects concentration, responsiveness, and memory but also leads to a decline in cognitive abilities such as memory, learning, reasoning, counting, expressing complex languages, and making decisions. The cognitive ability is a very critical factor influencing job performance. Therefore, without quality sleep, the job performance could be decreased and further affect the life satisfaction negatively. The study adopts Job Stress Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaires and self-rated job performance to understand the relationship between all those factors. The results of this study are not only able to understand the relationship between sleep quality, job stress and job performance, but also can be used as a reference while establishing polices to improve menopause women’s working intension.

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  1. Hsing Wu University, New Taipei City, 24452, Taiwan

    Zhi Xuan Chen

  2. Tatung University, Taipei, 10491, Taiwan

    Zhi Xuan Chen & Chih-Fu Wu

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Sara Albolino

  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Chen, Z.X., Wu, CF. (2019). Sleep Quality, Job Stress and Job Performance in Middle Age Women. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_103

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