Goldilocks at work: Just the right amount of job demands may be needed for your sleep health.

Sleep Health

Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Department of Neurology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.

Published: February 2023

AI Article Synopsis

  • Job demands can affect how well people sleep, but it's not clear how different levels of these demands impact sleep.
  • A study looked at over 2,900 workers to find out how job pressures relate to various sleep issues, like feeling tired or not sleeping well.
  • Results showed that having a moderate amount of job demands leads to better sleep, while too low or too high demands can make sleep worse, especially for people who don’t have much control at work.

Article Abstract

Objectives: It has been reported that job demands affect sleep, but how different levels of job demands affect sleep remains unclear. We examined whether curvilinear relationships exist between job demands and multiple sleep health outcomes.

Design: Cross-sectional analyses with linear and quadratic effects, using self-administered survey data.

Setting: A national sample of US adults.

Participants: Workers from Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS2; n = 2927).

Measurements: The Job Content Questionnaire assessed overall and 5 specific aspects of job demands (intensity, role conflict, work overload, time pressure, and interruptions). Habitual sleep health patterns across 5 dimensions (regularity, satisfaction/quality, daytime alertness, efficiency, and duration) were assessed. Age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital/partnered status, education, job tenure, work hours, body mass index, smoking status, and study sample were covariates.

Results: There were significant linear and quadratic relationships between job demands and sleep outcomes. Specifically, the linear effects indicated that participants with higher job demands had worse sleep health, such as shorter duration, greater irregularity, greater inefficiency, and more sleep dissatisfaction. The quadratic effects, however, indicated that sleep regularity and efficiency outcomes were the best when participants' job demands were moderate rather than too low or too high. These effects were found for overall job demands as well as for specific aspects of job demands. Stratified analyses further revealed that these curvilinear associations were mainly driven by participants with low job control.

Conclusions: Moderate levels of job demands, especially if combined with adequate job control, are related to optimal sleep health.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9991992PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2022.09.002DOI Listing

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