Work-Related Travel: Effects on Health and Family

与工作相关的旅行：对健康和家庭的影响

• 批准号: 7141787
• 负责人: Anisa Mary Zvonkovic
• 金额: $ 34.33万
• 依托单位: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-30 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7141787
• 关键词: behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; coping; employee; family structure /dynamics; health; human subject; interview; job satisfaction; parent offspring interaction; personal computers; personal log /diary; social support network; spouses; stress; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to identify the factors that relate to mental, physical, and interpersonal health of individuals whose jobs require frequent travel. The specific aims are to: 1. Identify factors that contribute to the adversity of the travel experience for workers and their families. 2. Determine how coping by the traveling workers and their intimate partners is related to personal well-being and family relationships. 3. Uncover the tempos of daily stress and coping strategies of frequently traveling workers and their intimate partners, associated with travel schedules of the workers. 4. Determine how parental work travel is related to child well-being. To accomplish the overall objective of this project requires linking traveling workers' daily experiences with those of their intimate partners and children, and accounting for variation in daily experiences across phases of work travel (preparing for trips, being on a trip, returning home, and being home). The multi-method approach includes: (a) in-person interviews in which 150 study participants whose jobs require frequent travel and 150 intimate partners of the travelers will respond to written questionnaires and interview questions pertaining to work and personal life, including detailed dimensions of their traveling schedule as well as measures tapping psychological well-being, social relationships, job satisfaction, and child well-being; and (b) daily diary reports in which participants use Personal Digital Assistants to report on their behaviors, feelings, and stress levels across the distinct phases of travel (i.e. preparing for a trip; being on a trip, returning home, being home). Half of the families in this study will have children between the ages of 8-18, and these children will participate in interviews, questionnaires, and daily diairies as well. The research proposed in this application targets an increasing and poorly understood segment of the labor force. Identifying the coping strategies used by traveling workers and their families that are associated with higher well-being can be expected to contribute to knowledge that will address the high rate of turnover in these jobs, as well as the high incidences of stress disorders they and their families' experience.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目的是确定与工作需要经常出差的个人的心理、身体和人际健康相关的因素。具体目标是： 1. 确定导致工人及其家人遭遇逆境的因素。 2. 确定出差工人及其亲密伴侣的应对方式与个人福祉和家庭关系有何关系。 3. 揭示经常出差的员工及其亲密伴侣的日常压力节奏和应对策略，并与员工的出差时间相关。 4. 确定父母工作旅行与儿童福祉的关系。为了实现该项目的总体目标，需要将差旅人员的日常经历与其亲密伴侣和孩子的日常经历联系起来，并考虑工作旅行各个阶段（准备旅行、旅行、回家和工作）日常经历的变化。在家）。多种方法包括：(a) 面对面访谈，其中 150 名工作需要经常出差的研究参与者和 150 名旅行者的亲密伴侣将回答有关工作和个人生活的书面调查问卷和访谈问题，包括工作和个人生活的详细维度。他们的旅行时间表以及针对心理健康、社会关系、工作满意度和儿童福祉的衡量标准； (b) 每日日记报告，其中参与者使用个人数字助理来报告他们在旅行的不同阶段（即准备旅行、正在旅行、回家、回家）的行为、感受和压力水平。这项研究中有一半的家庭有8-18岁的孩子，这些孩子也会参与访谈、问卷调查和日常日记。本申请中提出的研究针对的是越来越多且不太了解的劳动力群体。确定出差工人及其家人所使用的与更高福祉相关的应对策略，有望有助于解决这些工作的高流动率以及他们及其家人的压力障碍高发率的问题。家庭的经历。