Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the association of work stress, exhaustion, well-being, and related individual, organizational, and social factors, focusing especially on age differences in Taiwan. The data were from the 2015 Taiwan Social Change Survey. The participants were community-based adults, aged 18 years or older, selected via stratified multistage proportional probability sampling from the Taiwanese population. Well-being was measured by self-rated health and psychological health. Descriptive analysis, one-way analysis of variance, and linear regression analysis were used. Work stresses were related to three types of exhaustion, and exhaustion was related to well-being. Individual working style (being creative and using new methods), organizational factors (job satisfaction, work-family conflict, discrimination against women), and social factors (difficult finding a good job than older cohorts) were related to well-being. Older age was related to worse self-rated health, and age showed a reverse-U-shaped relation with psychological health. The resilience of older workers could be an opportunity for the global active aging trend, and interventions to support older workers in organizations would be beneficial.
Highlights
Work stress and its impact on exhaustion and well-being have been an emerging issue in health-related research
There were age differences in psychological health, but the main differences came from the group aged 18–39, who had lower psychological health, and the group aged 55–64, who had better psychological health
Among the three exhaustion variables, there were only significant age differences in physical exhaustion and the group aged 55–64, which were physically exhausted compared with the other groups
Summary
Work stress and its impact on exhaustion and well-being have been an emerging issue in health-related research. As population aging becomes a global trend, exhaustion and prolonged working age have been issues for older workers [11,12]. The willingness to work and the effects of working ability on health and well-being could be the core issues for an aging society. Whether the negative impacts of exhaustion on well-being can be reduced or avoided via individuals’ working methods or attitudes, or by systemic and policy changes for both younger and older workers has been little explored. In 2014, the labor participation rates for individuals aged 55–59, 60–64, and 65 years and older were 54.4%, 35.6%, and 8.7%, respectively [53].
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