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Daly, Colleen M.

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Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? A focus on stress and health behaviors.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? A focus on stress and health behaviors./
Author:	Daly, Colleen M.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Thomas Wickizer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3265322
ISBN:	9780549043713

Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? A focus on stress and health behaviors.
Daly, Colleen M.

Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? A focus on stress and health behaviors. - 134 p.

Adviser: Thomas Wickizer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

This dissertation summarizes the current state of knowledge about telecommuting and reports the findings of three studies aimed at addressing significant gaps in the literature examining telecommuting and health. Specifically, the focus of this dissertation is on improving the understanding of telecommuting's association with stress and health behaviors. Cross-sectional survey data on workers' self-reported stress, health behaviors and readiness to change were gathered from domestic salaried employees (N=41,372) who completed an online Health Risk Assessment Survey. Linear and logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between seven different patterns of telecommuting, and stress, health behaviors and readiness to change. Occasional telecommuting was used as the reference group.

ISBN: 9780549043713Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017799
Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.

Does changing work organization through telecommuting affect individual health? A focus on stress and health behaviors.
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520 $a This dissertation summarizes the current state of knowledge about telecommuting and reports the findings of three studies aimed at addressing significant gaps in the literature examining telecommuting and health. Specifically, the focus of this dissertation is on improving the understanding of telecommuting's association with stress and health behaviors. Cross-sectional survey data on workers' self-reported stress, health behaviors and readiness to change were gathered from domestic salaried employees (N=41,372) who completed an online Health Risk Assessment Survey. Linear and logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between seven different patterns of telecommuting, and stress, health behaviors and readiness to change. Occasional telecommuting was used as the reference group.
520 $a Results of study 1. Those working from home 4-5 days a week and those who never worked from home reported lower levels of stress than occasional telecommuters. Predictability of their schedules afforded by telecommuting may be the reason for less stress.
520 $a Results of study 2. No global effect across health behaviors was observed. Workers working from home 4-5 days a week consumed slightly fewer daily fruits and vegetables than occasional telecommuters. Working from a virtual location more than monthly was associated with 20 additional minutes of combined weekly exercise. Telecommuting was not associated with smoking or the use of alcohol.
520 $a Results study 3. There was a significant relationship between telecommuting and readiness to change three behaviors, physical activity, weight loss, and emotional health, with the strongest relationship observed among never telecommuters and readiness to change emotional health. No significant associations were found between telecommuting and readiness to change smoking or alcohol use.
520 $a This dissertation research contributes to an underdeveloped literature that lacks conceptual grounding. The studies included in this dissertation found no meaningful pattern of relationships between telecommuting and stress, health behaviors or readiness to change health behaviors. The research faced a number of significant data limitations, which may explain the failure to find hypothesized relationships. Telecommuting represents an emerging form of work organization. Future studies should examine its effect on stress and health behaviors by building on the research described here.
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