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Quality of life at sea in Polish seafarer’s evaluation
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Abstract
Background: Work at sea is highly burdening, hazardous and stressful. Environmental, physical, and psychosociological factors have a great impact on the seafarer’s quality of life and work. The research is a part of a broader psychological project performed on people working at sea in Poland during a period of 2011–2014.
Materials and methods: This report presents the self-evaluation of life quality conducted by a total of 1,700 Polish seafarers who took part in the study. The average age of the group was 45. Following methods were used: WHOQOL-BREF and the “Survey for people working at sea”.
Results: Polish seafarers gave the highest rates to their social relationships (16.27), then the psychological functioning (15.62), and environment (15.51). The physical domain gave the lowest rates (14.63).
Conclusions: The results have shown that quality of life of Polish seafarers is quite high.
Abstract
Background: Work at sea is highly burdening, hazardous and stressful. Environmental, physical, and psychosociological factors have a great impact on the seafarer’s quality of life and work. The research is a part of a broader psychological project performed on people working at sea in Poland during a period of 2011–2014.
Materials and methods: This report presents the self-evaluation of life quality conducted by a total of 1,700 Polish seafarers who took part in the study. The average age of the group was 45. Following methods were used: WHOQOL-BREF and the “Survey for people working at sea”.
Results: Polish seafarers gave the highest rates to their social relationships (16.27), then the psychological functioning (15.62), and environment (15.51). The physical domain gave the lowest rates (14.63).
Conclusions: The results have shown that quality of life of Polish seafarers is quite high.
Keywords
quality of life, work at sea, psychosocial factors, work quality
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Quality of life at sea in Polish seafarer’s evaluation
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Original article
Pages
247-251
Published online
2015-12-22
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DOI
10.5603/IMH.2015.0046
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IMH 2015;66(4):247-251.
Keywords
quality of life
work at sea
psychosocial factors
work quality
Authors
Maria Jeżewska
Marta Grubman-Nowak
Joanna Moryś
