Funded Research
Work Stress, Health and Parenting Among Hotel Employees
Source: NIH/NICHD
Active: 07/27/2005 - 6/30/2009
Investigator(s):
David Almeida
Ann C. Crouter
This project outlines plans for a developmental center that would conduct collaborative pilot research on work stress, health, and parenting for hotel employees as part of a research network focused on developing intervention protocols to study the health benefits of workplace policies and practices. The research consists of 1) an individual research project that uses daily diary methods to examine associations of daily work stressors with daily self reports and physiological measures (i.e., cortisol) of physical health, well-being, and productivity, within and across days. 2) a collaborative project to identify appropriate measures of parenting for the network, via consultation with each network partner, reviewing the relevant literatures, and conducting focus groups at partners' work sites (including our own hotel company sites); 3) a collaborative project to develop and pilot test a stress management intervention targeted at first-line supervisors, and create a survey tool that taps organizational readiness for interventions. Together, the activities of the network address an important public health issue: the implications of ongoing stressors in the workplace for the health and well-being of employed adults and their families.
