title: Dynamics of stress as a predictor of health consequences in Polish drilling platform workers. Longitudinal study: part I.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The subject of presented article is the evaluation of the relationship between the way of adaptation to work-related stress and chosen health indicators among drilling platform workers in Poland. The study procedure is a longitudinal research, including data analysis from 1993 to 2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  167 Polish platform male workers with an average age of 42 years have been examined. The studies include, according to the triangulation method, data from 3 sources: data concerning the so-called 'objective' and 'subjective' stress, personality and temperamental examinations and data concerning health state.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Stress affects health negatively, the higher subjective and objective stress, the worse health indicators: higher body mass index, more declared health ailments and worse evaluation of personal health (r = -0.23). Stress also affects health via 2 indirect tracts: through the kind of stress adaptation (stress dynamics) (r = -0.43) and through coping - depositional stress coping style (r = 0.41).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stress adaptation (stress dynamics) and coping style included in the study in longer perspective show that those drilling platform workers, who declare the decrease of stress over the years, present worse health indicators than those, who declare variability in the ways of adaptation to stress.
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leszczyńska
authors.affiliation: Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. mariajez@gumed.edu.pl.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jeżewska
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grubman-Nowak
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D019652:Extraction and Processing Industry; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009326:Naval Medicine; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D010578:Petroleum; D011044:Poland; D012944:Social Support; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D010578:Petroleum