Occupational stress of air traffic controllers and its influencing factors.
10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20201225-00717
- Author:
Li Hua TANG
1
;
Ying XIONG
2
;
Lin FANG
2
;
Chen BIAN
3
;
Qiang ZHANG
4
Author Information
1. Civil Aviation Management Institute of China,Beijing 100102, China.
2. Qinhuangdao Airport Branch of Hebei Airport Management Group Co. Ltd, Qinhuangdao 066000, China.
3. China Aviation Fuel Co. Ltd. Office in PetroChina North China Petrochemical Branch, Renqiu 062550, China.
4. Northwest Region Air Traffic Management Bureau of Civil Aviation of China, Xi'an 710082, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Air traffic controller;
Effort reward imbalance questionnaire;
Influencing factors;
Job content questionnaire;
Occupational stress
- MeSH:
Cross-Sectional Studies;
Employment;
Humans;
Job Satisfaction;
Occupational Stress/epidemiology*;
Reward;
Stress, Psychological/epidemiology*;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases
2022;40(9):668-673
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To investigate the occupational stress status of air traffic controllers (ATC) and analyze its influencing factors. Methods: By using cluster sampling method, 457 ATCs in an air traffic management bureau were selected as the investigation objects. The job content questionnaire (JCQ) and the effort reward imbalance questionnaire (ERI) were used to measure work requirements independent imbalance type and ERI type occupational stress separately and analyze the influencing factors. Results: Of the 457 ATCs, 81.84% (374/457) ATGs had work requirements independent imbalance type of occupational stress and 84.46% (386/457) ATGs had ERI type occupational stress. Univariate analysis showed that the factors of marital status, degree of education, age, length of service, title, job post, family monthly income, views on regular training, occurrence of emergency or unsafe events in last month and monthly night shift frequency had various degrees of influence on the different factor scores of JCQ and ERI (P<0.01) . Logistic regression analysis showed that the level of JCQ type occupational stress of ATCs with junior titles and probationers was higher than those of intermediate/senior titles (P=0.000, 0.000) ; The ERI type occupational stress of probationers and junior titles ATCs was lower than those with intermediate/senior titles (P=0.000) . The ERI and JCQ type occupational stress level of tower post ATCs was higher than that of other two job post ATCs (P=0.001, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000) . The ATCs considering regular training had more disadvantages than advantages showed lower ERI type occupational stress level than those considering more advantages than disadvantages (P=0.000) . The ERI type occupational stress level of ATCs who experienced emergency or unsafe events in last month was higher than those who didn't (P=0.007) . Conclusion: A large proportion of ATCs had occupational stress. Management should adjust its policies and pay were attention to occupational stress of ATLs.
