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GRASSP. Flexible Work - stress, sleep and private life. GRASSP. Group of researchers: Karen Albertsen Anne Helene Garde Katrine Kjøller Neergaard Roger Persson Reiner Rugulies 2006-2009 National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark Funded by the Danish Work Environment Council.
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GRASSP Flexible Work - stress, sleep and private life
GRASSP Group of researchers: • Karen Albertsen • Anne Helene Garde • Katrine Kjøller Neergaard • Roger Persson • Reiner Rugulies • 2006-2009 • National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark • Funded by the Danish Work Environment Council
Work without boundaries: • No fixed working place • No fixed working time – work defined by task • No fixed content/organization of work – the job contract/content can be discussed/ influenced by the employee • Requirement of self-regulation, self-evaluation and responsibility
Stress • An individual state characterized by anxiety and discomfort • The problematic stress is the long lasting stress without enough restitution: • Cognitive (e.g. memory) • Emotional (e.g. irritability) • Beavioural (e.g. isolation • Somatic (e.g. headache) • Physiological (e.g. cortisol)
Introduction • Trend in society rather than specific group of employees • Simultaniously good jobs (influence, variation, high demands, skills descretion) and stressfull jobs • “high to fly and deep to fall” – threath to identity • “An iron-hand in a silk glove”
Aim 1 • Explore under which conditions work without boundaries result in: • Stress, sleeping problems and lack of balance between work and private • And when it results in • Work satisfaction and satisfaction with private life
Areas of importance, aim 1: • Work culture: Degree of trust, respect and justice between management and employees. Degree of individualization of problems. Measurement of results rather than hours • Work environment: Degree of unpredictability in tasks and roles, unsolved tasks and conflicts, social support from managers and colleagues, regularity and length of working hours • Private life: Degree of resources in environment, social network, working status of spouse, economy, gender, number of children at home, personal resources, loss and crises
Aim 2 • To which degree are stress, sleeping problems and lack of work-life balance linked together as symptoms of strain? • To which degree are they independently present and independently related to physiological stress reactions?
Research questions, aim 2 • To which degree are stress, work-life balance and sleep associated with each other cross sectional and prospectively? • To which degree are the phenomena stable over time? • Is the association between self-reported stress and physiological stress (cortisol level) mediated or moderated by sleep? • Is the association between self-reported stress and work-life balance mediated or moderated by sleep quality?
Aim 3 • What are the possibilities for prevention of stress, sleeping problems and lack of work-life balance on worksite level in relation to flexible work?
Research questions, aim 3 • How is the psychosocial work environment and individual stress reactions treated and discussed in workplaces with flexible work? • Which efforts, interventions and preventive policies are used at the workplaces?
Design and Methods • Follow-up on existing data (N = appr. 900) • Collecting Cortisol • Measuring sleep pattern • Qualitative interviews with selected couples • Observations and interviews on three selected workplaces (Ph.d project)
Eksisterende data Data indsamling Potentielt grænse- løst arb. Potentielt grænse- løst arb. 3D-II Opfølgning 2 Opfølgning 1 Baseline 2006 2007 2005
Sample selection: Professionals, physisians, dentists, ingeniers, architects, staff within IT and media, teachers, researchers, managers and leaders, social workers, librarians, accounttants, bank clarks, salesmen Together: 851 persons contacted
Follow the project on • http://www.ami.dk
