par Casini, Annalisa ;Kittel, France ;Godin, Isabelle ;Clays, Els;De Backer, Guy;Kornitzer, Marcel ;Roy, Emmanuel
Référence 2009 meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (2009-06-03: Brussels)
Publication Non publié, 2009
Poster de conférence
Résumé : Background: The present meta-study has been performed in order to investigate whether the associations between gender and self-assessed health and risky behaviours are consistent within 4 Belgian databases (Belstress I, II, III and Somstress). Methods: Data were collected between 1994 and 2004 and the sample globally comprises 28.198 people working in 36 enterprises. Respondent have been asked to evaluate their depression (CES-D, Kohout et al., 1993), anxiety (SCL 90, Derogatis et al., 1973), stress at work (Karasek, 1979), general health complaints (CHI- Dirken, 1969), chronic fatigue (Vercoulen et al. 1994), excessive alcohol assumption, alcohol dependence, and smoking habit. Analyses were conducted by using « review manager » software resulting in Odds Ratios with global effect and a heterogeneity test. Findings: Analyses show overall significant effects for all the indicators. More precisely, on one hand, women report significantly worst mental and physical health than men. On the other and, men report to perform more risky behaviours than women. Moreover, heterogeneity tests showed that these tendencies are consistent across the different databases except for the “stress at work” and “excessive alcohol use” indicators. Discussion: Results will be discussed considering the possible psychosocial gender differences in health perceptions and health behavioural strategies

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