Publication Cover
Stress
The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
Volume 20, 2017 - Issue 4
680
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Research Report

Effects of psychosocial work characteristics on hair cortisol – findings from a post-trial study

ORCID Icon, , , , , & show all
Pages 363-370 | Received 21 Dec 2016, Accepted 03 Jun 2017, Published online: 27 Jun 2017

References

  • Almadi, T., Cathers, I., & Chow, C.M. (2013). Associations among work-related stress, cortisol, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome. Psychophysiology, 50, 821–830. doi:10.1111/psyp.12069
  • Bellingrath, S., Weigl, T., & Kudielka, B.M. (2008). Cortisol dysregulation in school teachers in relation to burnout, vital exhaustion, and effort-reward-imbalance. Biological Psychology, 78, 104–113. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.006
  • Buddeberg-Fischer, B., Klaghofer, R., Stamm, M., Siegrist, J., & Buddeberg, C. (2008). Work stress and reduced health in young physicians: prospective evidence from Swiss residents. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 82, 31–38. doi:10.1007/s00420-008-0303-7
  • Chandola, T., Siegrist, J., & Marmot, M. (2005). Do changes in effort-reward imbalance at work contribute to an explanation of the social gradient in angina? Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62, 223–230. doi:10.1136/oem.2004.016675
  • Eller, N.H., Netterstrom, B., & Hansen, A.M. (2006). Psychosocial factors at home and at work and levels of salivary cortisol. Biological Psychology, 73, 280–287. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.05.003
  • Eller, N.H., Nielsen, S.F., Blond, M., Nielsen, M.L., Hansen, A.M., & Netterstrom, B. (2012). Effort reward imbalance, and salivary cortisol in the morning. Biological Psychology, 89, 342–348. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.11.007
  • Gidlow, C.J., Randall, J., Gillman, J., Silk, S., & Jones, M.V. (2015). Hair cortisol and self-reported stress in healthy, working adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, 163–169. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.09.022
  • Godin, I., Kittel, F., Coppieters, Y., & Siegrist, J. (2005). A prospective study of cumulative job stress in relation to mental health. BMC Public Health, 5, 67doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-67
  • Hanson, E.K., Maas, C.J., Meijman, T.F., & Godaert, G.L. (2000). Cortisol secretion throughout the day, perceptions of the work environment, and negative affect. Annals of Behavioral Medicine , 22, 316–324.
  • Harris, A., Ursin, H., Murison, R., & Eriksen, H.R. (2007). Coffee, stress and cortisol in nursing staff. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32, 322–330. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.01.003
  • Irie, M., Tsutsumi, A., Shioji, I., & Kobayashi, F. (2004). Effort-reward imbalance and physical health among Japanese workers in a recently downsized corporation. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 77, 409–417. doi:10.1007/s00420-004-0533-2
  • Izawa, S., Tsutsumi, A., & Ogawa, N. (2016). Effort-reward imbalance, cortisol secretion, and inflammatory activity in police officers with 24-h work shifts. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 89, 1147–1154. doi:10.1007/s00420-016-1154-2
  • Janssens, H., Clays, E., Fiers, T., Verstraete, A.G., de Bacquer, D., & Braeckman, L. (2016). Hair cortisol in relation to job stress and depressive symptoms. Occupational Medicine (London), 19, 438–446. doi:10.1093/occmed/kqw114
  • Karlson, B., Lindfors, P., Riva, R., Mellner, C., Theorell, T., & Lundberg, U. (2012). Psychosocial work stressors and salivary cortisol. In M. Kristenson, P. Garvin, & U. Lundberg (Eds.), The role of saliva cortisol measurement in health and disease (pp. 43–66). Oak Park: Bentham Science Publishers.
  • Kim, T.J., & von Dem Knesebeck, O. (2015). Perceived job insecurity, unemployment and depressive symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 89, 561–573. doi:10.1007/s00420-015-1107-1
  • Kivimaki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Brunner, E., Marmot, M.G., Vahtera, J., & Shipley, M.J. (2006). Why is evidence on job strain and coronary heart disease mixed? An illustration of measurement challenges in the Whitehall II study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 398–401. doi:10.1097/01.psy.0000221252.84351.e2
  • Kivima¨ki, M., Vahtera, J., Elovainio, M., Keltikangas-Ja¨Rvinen, L., Virtanen, M., Hintsanen, M., … Ferrie, J.E. (2008). What are the next steps for research on work stress and coronary heart disease? SJWEH, Suppl. 33–40.
  • Li, J., Weigl, M., Glaser, J., Petru, R., Siegrist, J., & Angerer, P. (2013). Changes in psychosocial work environment and depressive symptoms: a prospective study in junior physicians. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 56, 1414–1422. doi:10.1002/ajim.22246
  • Limm, H., Gundel, H., Heinmuller, M., Marten-Mittag, B., Nater, U.M., Siegrist, J., & Angerer, P. (2011). Stress management interventions in the workplace improve stress reactivity: a randomised controlled trial. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 68, 126–133. doi:10.1136/oem.2009.054148
  • Loerbroks, A., Shang, L., Angerer, P., & Li, J. (2015). Effort-reward imbalance at work increases the risk of the metabolic syndrome: a prospective study in Chinese university staff. International Journal of Cardiology, 182, 390–391. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.01.030
  • Maina, G., Bovenzi, M., Palmas, A., & Larese Filon, F. (2009). Associations between two job stress models and measures of salivary cortisol. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 82, 1141–1150. doi:10.1007/s00420-009-0439-0
  • Manenschijn, L., van Kruysbergen, R.G., de Jong, F.H., Koper, J.W., & van Rossum, E.F. (2011). Shift work at young age is associated with elevated long-term cortisol levels and body mass index. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 96, E1862–E1865. doi:10.1210/jc.2011-1551
  • McEwen, B.S. (1998). Stress, adaptation, and disease. Allostasis and allostatic load. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 840, 33–44.
  • Nieuwenhuijsen, K., Bruinvels, D., & Frings-Dresen, M. (2010). Psychosocial work environment and stress-related disorders, a systematic review. Occupational Medicine (Oxford, England), 60, 277–286. doi:10.1093/occmed/kqq081
  • Ota, A., Mase, J., Howteerakul, N., Rajatanun, T., Suwannapong, N., Yatsuya, H., & Ono, Y. (2014). The effort-reward imbalance work-stress model and daytime salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) among Japanese women. Scientific Reports, 4, 6402. doi:10.1038/srep06402
  • Pereg, D., Gow, R., Mosseri, M., Lishner, M., Rieder, M., Van Uum, S., & Koren, G. (2011). Hair cortisol and the risk for acute myocardial infarction in adult men. Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 14, 73–81. doi:10.3109/10253890.2010.511352
  • Piazza, J.R., Almeida, D.M., Dmitrieva, N.O., & Klein, L.C. (2010). Frontiers in the use of biomarkers of health in research on stress and aging. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 65, 513–525. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbq049
  • Qi, X., Zhang, J., Liu, Y., Ji, S., Chen, Z., Sluiter, J.K., & Deng, H. (2014). Relationship between effort-reward imbalance and hair cortisol concentration in female kindergarten teachers. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 76, 329–332. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.01.008
  • Quinete, N., Bertram, J., Reska, M., Lang, J., & Kraus, T. (2015). Highly selective and automated online SPE LC-MS3 method for determination of cortisol and cortisone in human hair as biomarker for stress related diseases. Talanta, 134, 310–316. doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2014.11.034
  • Rosmalen, J.G., Bos, E.H., & de Jonge, P. (2012). Validation of the long-term difficulties inventory (LDI) and the list of threatening experiences (LTE) as measures of stress in epidemiological population-based cohort studies. Psychological Medicine, 42, 2599–2608. doi:10.1017/s0033291712000608
  • Russell, E., Koren, G., Rieder, M., & Van Uum, S. (2012). Hair cortisol as a biological marker of chronic stress: current status, future directions and unanswered questions. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 589–601. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.09.009
  • Schmidt, B., Bosch, J.A., Jarczok, M.N., Herr, R.M., Loerbroks, A., van Vianen, A.E., & Fischer, J.E. (2015). Effort-reward imbalance is associated with the metabolic syndrome – findings from the Mannheim Industrial Cohort Study (MICS). International Journal of Cardiology, 178, 24–28. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.10.115
  • Schnall, P.L., Dobson, M., & Landsbergis, P. (2016). Globalization, work, and cardiovascular disease. International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation, 46, 656–692. doi:10.1177/0020731416664687
  • Shaffer, J.P. (1995). Multiple hypothesis testing. Annual Review of Psychology, 46, 561–584. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ps.46.020195.003021
  • Siegrist, J. (1996). Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1, 27–41. doi: 10.1037/1076-8998.1.1.27
  • Siegrist, J. (2008). Chronic psychosocial stress at work and risk of depression: evidence from prospective studies. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 258 Suppl 5, 115–119. doi:10.1007/s00406-008-5024-0
  • Siegrist, J. (2010). Effort-reward imbalance at work and cardiovascular diseases. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 23, 279–285. doi:10.2478/v10001-010-0013-8
  • Siegrist, J., & Li, J. (2016). Associations of extrinsic and intrinsic components of work stress with health: a systematic review of evidence on the effort-reward imbalance model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13, 432. doi:10.3390/ijerph13040432
  • Siegrist, J., Starke, D., Chandola, T., Godin, I., Marmot, M., Niedhammer, I., & Peter, R. (2004). The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 58, 1483–1499. doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00351-4
  • Smith, P., & Beaton, D. (2008). Measuring change in psychosocial working conditions: methodological issues to consider when data are collected at baseline and one follow-up time point. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 65, 288–295. quiz 295–286. doi:10.1136/oem.2006.032144
  • Smith, P., & Beaton, D. (2009). Re: “changes in perceived job strain and the risk of major depression: results from a population-based longitudinal study”. American Journal of Epidemiology, 170, 131–132; author reply 132, 133. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp147
  • Soper, D.S. (2017). The free statistics calculators website. Retrieved from http://www.danielsoper.com/statcalc/
  • Stalder, T., & Kirschbaum, C. (2012). Analysis of cortisol in hair-state of the art and future directions. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 26, 1019–1029. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2012.02.002
  • Stalder, T., Kirschbaum, C., Alexander, N., Bornstein, S.R., Gao, W., Miller, R., … Fischer, J.E. (2013). Cortisol in hair and the metabolic syndrome. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 98, 2573–2580. doi:10.1210/jc.2013-1056
  • Stalder, T., Steudte, S., Alexander, N., Miller, R., Gao, W., Dettenborn, L., & Kirschbaum, C. (2012). Cortisol in hair, body mass index and stress-related measures. Biological Psychology, 90, 218–223. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.03.010
  • Stalder, T., Steudte-Schmiedgen, S., Alexander, N., Klucken, T., Vater, A., Wichmann, S., … Miller, R. (2017). Stress-related and basic determinants of hair cortisol in humans: a meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendo-crinology, 77, 261–274. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.12.017
  • Staufenbiel, S.M., Penninx, B.W., Spijker, A.T., Elzinga, B.M., & van Rossum, E.F. (2013). Hair cortisol, stress exposure, and mental health in humans: a systematic review. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38, 1220–1235. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.11.015
  • Steinisch, M., Yusuf, R., Li, J., Stalder, T., Bosch, J.A., Rahman, O., … Loerbroks, A. (2014). Work stress and hair cortisol levels among workers in a Bangladeshi ready-made garment factory – results from a cross-sectional study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50, 20–27. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.08.001
  • Steptoe, A., Siegrist, J., Kirschbaum, C., & Marmot, M. (2004). Effort-reward imbalance, overcommitment, and measures of cortisol and blood pressure over the working day. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 323–329.
  • Theorell, T., Hammarstrom, A., Aronsson, G., Traskman Bendz, L., Grape, T., Hogstedt, C., … Hall, C. (2015). A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and depressive symptoms. BMC Public Health, 15, 738. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1954-4
  • Trudel, X., Brisson, C., Milot, A., Masse, B., & Vezina, M. (2015). Adverse psychosocial work factors, blood pressure and hypertension incidence: repeated exposure in a 5-year prospective cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 40, 109–132. doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204914
  • Trudel, X., Brisson, C., Milot, A., Masse, B., & Vezina, M. (2016). Effort-reward imbalance at work and 5-year changes in blood pressure: the mediating effect of changes in body mass index among 1400 white-collar workers. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 89, 1229–1238. doi:10.1007/s00420-016-1159-x
  • Virtanen, M., Nyberg, S.T., Batty, G.D., Jokela, M., Heikkila, K., Fransson, E.I., … Kivimaki, M. (2013). Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 347, f4746. doi:10.1136/bmj.f4746
  • Weckesser, L.J., Plessow, F., Pilhatsch, M., Muehlhan, M., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2014). Do venepuncture procedures induce cortisol responses? A review, study, and synthesis for stress research. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 46, 88–99. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.012
  • Weitzman, E.D., Fukushima, D., Nogeire, C., Roffwarg, H., Gallagher, T.F., & Hellman, L. (1971). Twenty-four hour pattern of the episodic secretion of cortisol in normal subjects. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 33, 14–22. doi:10.1210/jcem-33-1-14
  • Wells, S., Tremblay, P.F., Flynn, A., Russell, E., Kennedy, J., Rehm, J., … Graham, K. (2014). Associations of hair cortisol concentration with self-reported measures of stress and mental health-related factors in a pooled database of diverse community samples. Stress, 17, 334–342. doi:10.3109/10253890.2014.930432
  • Wosu, A.C., Valdimarsdottir, U., Shields, A.E., Williams, D.R., & Williams, M.A. (2013). Correlates of cortisol in human hair: implications for epidemiologic studies on health effects of chronic stress. Annals of Epidemiology, 23, 797–811.e792. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.09.006
  • Wright, B.J. (2011). Effort-reward imbalance is associated with salivary immunoglobulin a and cortisol secretion in disability workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 53, 308–312. doi:10.1097/JOM.0b013e31820c90b7
  • Yan, Y.X., Xiao, H.B., Wang, S.S., Zhao, J., He, Y., Wang, W., & Dong, J. (2016). Investigation of the relationship between chronic stress and insulin resistance in a Chinese population. Journal of Epidemiology, 26, 355–360. doi:10.2188/jea.JE20150183

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.