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- Title
Women, Work and Coronary Heart Disease: Prospective Findings from the Framingham Heart Study.
- Authors
Haynes, Suzanne G.; Feinleib, Manning
- Abstract
Abstract: This study examined the relationship of employment status and employment-related behaviors to the incidence of corona,'y heart disease (CHD) in women. Between 1965 and 1967. a psychosocial questionnaire was administered to 350 housewives. 387 working women (women who had been employed outside the home over one-half their adult years), and 580 men participating in the Framingham Heart Study, The respondents were 45 to 64 years of age and were followed for the development of CHD over the ensuing eight years. Regardless of employment status, women reported signiticantly more symptoms of emotional distress than men. Working women and men were more likely to report Type A behavior, ambitiousness. and marital disagreements than were housewives: working women experienced more job mobility than men. and more daily stress and marital dissatisfaction than housewives or men. Working women did not have significantly higher incidence rates of CHD than housewives 17.8 vs 5.4 per ¢. respectively). However. CHD rates were it[most twice as great among women homing clerical jobs (10.6 per ¢) as compared to housewives. The most significant predictors of CHD among clerical workers were: suppressed hostility. having a nonsupportive boss. and decreased job mobility CHD rates were higher among working women who had ever married, especially among those who had raised three or more children. Among working women electrical workers who had children and were married blue collar workers were at highest risk of developing CHD [21.3 per ¢.)
- Subjects
WOMEN employees; HEART diseases in women; CORONARY disease; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; DISEASES in women; WOMEN'S health services; BLUE collar workers; OCCUPATIONAL mobility; RESEARCH
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1980, Vol 70, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.70.2.133