printAbout Some Social Characteristics of Chronic Stress of Shift Workers in the Arctic Conditions
Akimov A.M.
Cand. Sci. (Soc.), Senior Researcher Associate, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular diseases of the Tyumen Cardiology Research Center – branch of Tomsk National Research Medical Center of RAS, Tomsk, Russia akimovam@infarkta.net
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Akimov A.M. About Some Social Characteristics of Chronic Stress of Shift Workers in the Arctic Conditions. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2023. No 5. P. 154-159
Abstract
The expeditionary-shift method of organizing labor involves an increase in the intensity of labor during the shift, a longer work shift, a decrease in off-season rest in the absence of days off and minimal social and domestic security. The article is devoted to the study of some characteristics of the formation of chronic stress among men aged 25–54 years, employed in expeditionary-shift work in the Arctic territories of the Tyumen region. The empirical basis was a survey of men using the standardized WHO MONICA-psychosocial questionnaire. Two groups were studied: the main group (N = 203 people) with work experience of 5 years or more and the control group (N = 218) with less than a year of work experience. The distribution after five years of shift work of the following social consequences has been established: a change in specialty, an increase in the load and responsibility in the workplace, a more negative attitude towards work, the most frequent change in salary and change of workplace, as well as a change in marital status and family conflicts.
Keywords
stress at work; stress in the family; expedition-shift method
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