{"id":1489,"date":"2019-07-25T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:57:38","slug":"new-paper-organizational-justice-psychological-distress-and-stress-related-behaviors-by-occupational-class-in-female-japanese-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/en\/blogs\/1489","title":{"rendered":"New paper: Organizational justice, psychological distress, and stress-related behaviors by occupational class in female Japanese employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We published a new paper from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0214393\">PLoS ONE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n<p>Backgrounds<\/p>\n<p>Recent evidence has suggested that in Japan, professionals and<br \/>\nmanagers have a higher risk of poor health than other workers (e.g.,<br \/>\nclerks and manual laborers), and this effect may be stronger among<br \/>\nwomen than men. Low organizational justice, which is known to be a<br \/>\npotential risk factor for poor health among employees, may explain the<br \/>\ngender-specific association.<\/p>\n<p>Methods<\/p>\n<p>We examined the associations between perceived organizational justice<br \/>\nand psychological distress and stress-related behaviors (smoking and<br \/>\nheavy drinking) in 2,216 female and 7,557 male employees aged 18 to 69<br \/>\nyears from the Japanese Study of Health, Occupation, and Psychosocial<br \/>\nFactors Related Equity. We measured both procedural and interactional<br \/>\njustice, and compared managers and professionals with other employees.<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>After adjusting for demographic characteristics and occupational<br \/>\nstress, low levels of perceived procedural and interactional justice<br \/>\nwere found to be associated with a high prevalence of psychological<br \/>\ndistress for both women and men, regardless of occupational status.<br \/>\nAmong female managers and professionals, perceived interactional<br \/>\njustice (measured as the levels of supports by supervisors, etc.) was<br \/>\nsignificantly associated with smoking, whereas no such association was<br \/>\nobserved among other workers. When interactional justice was perceived<br \/>\nto be low, the prevalence of smoking was 6.5 percentage points higher<br \/>\namong managers and professionals than among others. Neither procedural<br \/>\nnor interactional justice was associated with risk of heavy drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusions<\/p>\n<p>Female managers and professionals in a workplace with unsupportive<br \/>\nsupervisors may be more likely to engage in unhealthy coping behaviors<br \/>\nto manage their stress. Creating supportive workplaces may be<br \/>\nbeneficial in increasing workers\u2019 health, especially for female<br \/>\nmanagers and professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi Y, Kondo N (2019) Organizational justice, psychological<br \/>\ndistress, and stress-related behaviors by occupational class in female<br \/>\nJapanese employees. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214393.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0214393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0214393&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1564131401186000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE1x5begEbMaEmvuZdOiV1pL-FVVA\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/<wbr \/>journal.pone.0214393<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We published a new paper from PLoS ONE. Abstract Backgrounds Recent evidence has suggested that in Japan, prof &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/en\/blogs\/1489\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New paper: Organizational justice, psychological distress, and stress-related behaviors by occupational class in female Japanese employees&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}