Process of Influence of Work Stress on Self-Care in Working Diabetic

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence processes of environmental factors such as work stress and psychological factors such as rationalization and optimistic attitude on the deterioration of lifestyle and the preservation of self-care in working diabetics. The participants for using data analysis were 592 (569 males and 23 females) working type 2 diabetics, whose ages were ranged from 40 to 65. The analysis of covariance structure was used to examine the influence processes of work stress and lifestyle on the implementation of diabetes self-care. The results showed that there were two influence processes to self-care. The first process is that work stress and stress responses inhibit the practice of self-care through the promotion of irregular diet. The second is that work stress and stress responses facilitate optimistic attitudes toward illness through encouraging rationalization and then optimistic attitudes inhibit the practice of self-care. These two inhibitive processes to self-care were consisted of the pathway by lifestyle and that by irrational cognitive copings.