The impact of the accident at the Three Mile Island on the behavior and well-being of nuclear workers: Part II: job tension, psychophysiological symptoms, and indices of distress. | Zendy

S. V. Kasl | Zendy; Rupert F. Chisholm | Zendy; Brenda Eskenazi | Zendy

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The impact of the accident at the Three Mile Island on the behavior and well-being of nuclear workers: Part II: job tension, psychophysiological symptoms, and indices of distress.

Author(s) -

S. V. Kasl,

Rupert F. Chisholm,

Brenda Eskenazi

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.5.484

Subject(s) - worry , mile , anger , occupational safety and health , feeling , distress , medicine , accident (philosophy) , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , anxiety , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , physics , astronomy

TMI workers experienced much greater job tension and lower occupational self-esteem (supervisors only). At the time of the accident, TMI workers reported experiencing more periods of anger, extreme worry and extreme upset, and more psychophysiological symptoms. Six months after the accident, some persistence of these feelings and symptoms was evident. Demoralization was greater primarily among TMI non-supervisory workers. The impact of the accident was not greater among TMI workers living closer to the plant. Presence of a preschool child at home enhanced the impact of the accident, but primarily among TMI supervisors.

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