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MARITIME HEALTH
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Work related stress in seamen
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IMH 2006;57(1-4):66-75.
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Vol 57, No 1-4 (2006)
MARITIME HEALTH
Submitted: 2013-02-18
Published online: 2010-03-26
Abstract
People working at sea experience stress connected with their specific work
conditions, high job responsibility and psychosocial factors, which generate health and
psychological problems.
The self- evaluation of mental strain related to the work at sea was arranged for
Maritime Academy students and for merchant marine officers.
Two study groups were examined: 30 students of the Mechanical Faculty of the
Maritime Academy (MA) in Gdynia, of the mean age 22,7 years, and 30 seamen, i.e. deck officers and ship's engineers, of the mean age 47,2 years, with a minimum 15-year
period of service at sea.
For the assessment of work-related stress level, the „Work-Related Stress –
Subjective Work Evaluation Questionnaire” was used.
Comparing to the officers with a long period of service at sea, the students were
more vulnerable to stress at work, and this was attributed to: social relations, physical
onerousness, the lack of control, and the lack of support.
The programme of psychological training, aimed at supporting the personal
competence, was proposed as a preventive intervention.
Abstract
People working at sea experience stress connected with their specific work
conditions, high job responsibility and psychosocial factors, which generate health and
psychological problems.
The self- evaluation of mental strain related to the work at sea was arranged for
Maritime Academy students and for merchant marine officers.
Two study groups were examined: 30 students of the Mechanical Faculty of the
Maritime Academy (MA) in Gdynia, of the mean age 22,7 years, and 30 seamen, i.e. deck officers and ship's engineers, of the mean age 47,2 years, with a minimum 15-year
period of service at sea.
For the assessment of work-related stress level, the „Work-Related Stress –
Subjective Work Evaluation Questionnaire” was used.
Comparing to the officers with a long period of service at sea, the students were
more vulnerable to stress at work, and this was attributed to: social relations, physical
onerousness, the lack of control, and the lack of support.
The programme of psychological training, aimed at supporting the personal
competence, was proposed as a preventive intervention.
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Authors
Maria Jeżewska
Irena Leszczyńska
Bogdan Jaremin
