Naslov
Workload and subjective age in health care professionals

Autori
Kaliterna Lipovčan, Ljiljana ; Duvančić, Davor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Ergonomy 2001

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 07.12.2001. - 08.12.2001

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
subjective age; work demands; health

Sažetak
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between different age measures and physical, mental and social demands of work. Subjects were health care professionals from four medical settings (N=107). They were administered a questionnaire from which we selected work and age related items for analysis. Physical, mental and social demands of work were assessed in terms of subjects&#8217 ; reports of effort required by the work, tiredness resulting from the work, and personal skills needed to complete the work. Subjective age measures included cognitive age, desired age and successful age. The results showed, in general, that workers in medical settings perceived and evaluated their work demands as above average in terms of efforts needed to meet the physical, mental and social skills of their work. They reported being on average &#8216 ; quite a bit&#8217 ; physically and mentally tired, as well as tense, at the end of the workday. However, they reported quite high ability needed to complete physical, mental and social demands of work. Consistent with the results of other studies, we found that the subject felt younger than their actual age (about 5 years), desired to be even younger (10 years) and believed that the person who is two years younger than them is most successful in its job. The different age measures showed different relationships with aspects of work demands. Older chronological and cognitive ages were related to poorer ability for completing physical (p<.01) and mental (p<.01) demands of work. Contrary to this, older desired and success ages were associated with less physical tiredness resulting from the work (p<.01) and less tension reported at the end of workday (p<.01). Older success age was in addition related to less physical effort needed to complete the work tasks (p<.05) and less mental tiredness resulting from the work (p<.05).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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