title: Self-perceived depression, anxiety, stress and their relationships with psychosocial job factors in male automotive assembly workers.
abstract: Depression, anxiety and stress have been recognized as important mental outcome measures in stressful working settings. The present study explores the prevalence of self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress; and their relationships with psychosocial job factors. A cross-sectional study involving 728 male automotive assembly workers was conducted in two major automotive assembly plants in Malaysia using the validated Malay versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) and Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ). Based on the DASS cut-off of > or =78 percentile scores, the prevalence of self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress was 35.4%, 47.2% and 31.1%, respectively. Four (0.5%), 29 (4.0%) and 2 (0.3%) workers, respectively, reported extremely severe self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress. Multiple linear regression analyses, controlling for age, education, salary, duration of work and marital status, revealed that psychological job demand, job insecurity and hazardous condition were positively associated with DASS-Depression, DASS-Anxiety and DASS-Stress; supervisor support was inversely associated with DASS-Depression and DASS-Stress. We suggest that reducing psychological job demand, job insecurity and hazardous condition factors may improve the self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress in male automotive assembly workers. Supervisor support is protective for self-perceived depression and stress.
authors.affiliation: Division of Occupational Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Bin Abdin
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Edimansyah
authors.forename: Bin Nordin
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Rusli
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Naing
authors.forename: Bin Abdullah
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Mohamed Rusli
authors.forename: Than
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Winn
authors.forename: Bin Raja Hussin
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Tengku Mohamed Ariff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001336:Automobiles; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011788:Quality of Life; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*