Sleep disturbances, work stress and work hours
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPublished 1 September 2002
Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Anders Knutsson, Peter Westerholm, Töres Theorell, Lars Alfredsson, Göran Kecklund
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Stress and the social situation at work are strongly linked to disturbed sleep and impaired awakening, that gender and, even more so, age may modify this and that the inability to stop worrying about work during free time may be an important link in the relation between stress and sleep.
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It was concluded that stress and the social situation at work are strongly linked to disturbed sleep and impaired awakening, that gender and, even more so, age may modify this and that the inability to stop worrying about work during free time may be an important link in the relation between stress and sleep.
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