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PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE
Volume 71, Issue 3, Pages 334-340Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181960665
Keywords
fairness; sleep; psychosocial factors; work organization; public sector
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- Medical Research Council
- British Heart Foundation
- Health and Safety Executive
- Department of Health
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute [HL36310]
- National Institutes of HealthL: National Institute on Aging [AG13196]
- Agency for Health Care Policy Research [Grant HS06516]
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Networks
- British Heart Foundation [G8802774]
- MRC Research Professorship
- Academy of Finland [117604]
- British Heart Foundation [RG/07/008/23674] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0100222, G19/35, G8802774] Funding Source: researchfish
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Objectives: To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism. Methods: Data were from the prospective Whitehall II study of white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 years at baseline). Age, employment grade, health behaviors, and depressive symptoms were measured at Phase 1 (1985-1988) and baseline sleeping problems were assessed at Phase 2 (1989-1990). Organizational justice was assessed twice, at Phases 1 and 2. The outcome was mean of sleeping problems during Phases 5 (1997-1999) and 7 (2003-2004). Results: In men, low organizational justice at Phase 1 and Phase 2 were associated with overall sleeping problems, sleep maintenance problems, sleep onset problems, and nonrefreshing sleep at Phases 5 and 7. In women, a significant association was observed between low organizational justice and overall sleeping problems and sleep onset problems. These associations were robust to adjustments for age, employment grade, health behaviors, job strain, depressive symptoms, and sleeping problems at baseline. Conclusions: This study shows that perceived unfair treatment at workplace is associated with increased risk of poor sleep quality in men and women, one potential mechanism through which justice at work may affect health.
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