研究：同事間互相排擠會折壽

Working with co-workers who undermine each other can result in shorter lives than working with a good peer support system, Israeli researchers report.

以色列研究人員稱，與一個良好的合作氛圍相比，同事間互相排擠會折損壽命。

Arie Shirom of Tel Aviv University tracked the medical records of 820 workers - mostly in blue-collar types of jobs - from some of Israel's largest firms in finance, insurance, public utilities, healthcare and manufacturing for 20 years, from 1988 to 2008, during which 53 participants died.

特拉維夫大學的Arie Shirom持續20年（從1988年到2008年）追蹤調查了以色列金融、保險、公用事業、醫療以及製造業部分大型企業的820名工人（大部分爲藍領）的醫療記錄，其中53名受試者中途去世。

One-third of the study subjects were women; 80 percent were married with children and 45 percent had at least 12 years of formal education. They reported working on average 8.8 hours a day.

1/3的受試對象是女性；80%者已婚生子，45%者至少接受過12年的正規教育。據瞭解他們日平均工作時長爲8.8小時。The study, scheduled to be published in the May issue of the journal Health Psychology, said the effect of peer social support on the risk of mortality was most pronounced among those between the ages of 38-43. Yet similar support from workers' supervisors had no effect on mortality, the researchers found.

這份即將刊載於5月號《健康心理學》雜誌的研究報告稱，同事間的社會支持與死亡風險之間的聯繫在38歲至43歲年齡段的人羣中表現最爲明顯。但是研究人員發現，上司們對員工表現出的類似支持姿態卻對死亡率沒有影響。

In addition, men who said they felt like they had control and decision authority at work also experienced this "protective effect," but control and decision authority increased the risk of mortality among women in the sample.

此外，聲稱更喜歡擁有控制決策權威的男性僱員也會有這種“保護性效應”，但控制決策權威卻可增加受試羣體中女性的死亡風險。