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International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

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01.12.2015

Organizational Justice and Physiological Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Japanese Employees: a Cross-Sectional Study

verfasst von: Akiomi Inoue, Norito Kawakami, Hisashi Eguchi, Koichi Miyaki, Akizumi Tsutsumi

Erschienen in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Ausgabe 6/2015

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Abstract

Background

Growing evidence has shown that lack of organizational justice (i.e., procedural justice and interactional justice) is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) while biological mechanisms underlying this association have not yet been fully clarified.

Purpose

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cross-sectional association of organizational justice with physiological CHD risk factors (i.e., blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein [HDL] cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein [LDL] cholesterol, and triglyceride) in Japanese employees.

Methods

Overall, 3598 male and 901 female employees from two manufacturing companies in Japan completed self-administered questionnaires measuring organizational justice, demographic characteristics, and lifestyle factors. They completed health checkup, which included blood pressure and serum lipid measurements. Multiple logistic regression analyses and trend tests were conducted.

Results

Among male employees, multiple logistic regression analyses and trend tests showed significant associations of low procedural justice and low interactional justice with high triglyceride (defined as 150 mg/dL or greater) after adjusting for demographic characteristics and lifestyle factors. Among female employees, trend tests showed significant dose-response relationship between low interactional justice and high LDL cholesterol (defined as 140 mg/dL or greater) while multiple logistic regression analysis showed only marginally significant or insignificant odds ratio of high LDL cholesterol among the low interactional justice group. Neither procedural justice nor interactional justice was associated with blood pressure or HDL cholesterol.

Conclusion

Organizational justice may be an important psychosocial factor associated with increased triglyceride at least among Japanese male employees.

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Titel: Organizational Justice and Physiological Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Japanese Employees: a Cross-Sectional Study
verfasst von: Akiomi Inoue
Norito Kawakami
Hisashi Eguchi
Koichi Miyaki
Akizumi Tsutsumi
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2015
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Ausgabe 6/2015
Print ISSN: 1070-5503
Elektronische ISSN: 1532-7558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-015-9480-4

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Organizational Justice and Physiological Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Japanese Employees: a Cross-Sectional Study

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Background

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusion

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