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- Title
Women's Smoking: Relationships Among Emotional Labor, Occupational Stress, and Health Promotion.
- Authors
Boo, Sunjoo; Oh, Hyunjin
- Abstract
Call centers in Korea have been found to be operated mainly by women, and they experience high levels of job-related stress. Compared with the general population, the prevalence of smoking among women in Korea's call centers is strikingly high. Little attention has been paid to the associations between smoking behavior and their emotional labor, occupational stress, and health-promotion behaviors. For this cross-sectional study, a paper-based survey was conducted in a sample of female employees in a credit card call center (N = 309). Among the participants, about 20% (n = 62) were current smokers. Smokers were less engaged in health-promotion behaviors than nonsmokers, and occupational stress was negatively associated with health-promoting behaviors in nonsmokers, but not in smokers. Smokers may use cigarettes as a way of alleviating the emotional burden of their work.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; ANALYSIS of variance; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; CHI-squared test; EMOTIONS; HEALTH behavior; HEALTH promotion; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; JOB stress; SMOKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; T-test (Statistics); WOMEN'S health; HELPLINES; CONTINUING education units; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Workplace Health & Safety, 2019, Vol 67, Issue 7, p361
- ISSN
2165-0799
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2165079918823214