Researchers
wanted to evaluate whether or not work stress make you shorter. A 1-point decrease on a 5-point scale of perceived job control (the
degree to which an employee feels free to set his or her pace or change the
sequence of tasks) is associated with an additional 1 millimeter of daily spine shrinkage, a phenomenon linked to lower-back
pain, According to the abstract, they found that after adjustment
for sex, age, body weight, smoking status, biomechanical work strain, and time
spent on physical and low-effort activities during the day, lower levels of
daily job control significantly predicted increased spinal shrinkage. So, if
you perceive your job is stressful, it might be helpful to ‘reframe’ the stress
part.
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol 18(4), Oct
2013, 469-480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034256
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