Article Text
Abstract
Objective To investigate the associations among procrastination (time inconsistency), work environment and obesity-related factors in Japanese male workers.
Design Cross-sectional study.
Setting Data were collected at two work sites of Japanese electronics manufacturing company in 2015.
Participants 795 full-time male workers in a Japanese electric company, aged 35–64 years, who underwent health checkups in 2015.
Main outcome measures Body mass index (BMI), adult weight change, obesity (BMI ≥25 kg/m2), adult weight gain over 10 kg (AWG10) and metabolic syndrome (MetS). Multivariable linear and logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the associations of procrastination assessed by using a one-item questionnaire and white-collar and blue-collar work with obesity-related factors.
Results White-collar workers with high procrastination levels showed positive associations with BMI (B: 0.75, 95% CI 0.06 to 1.44) and adult weight change (B: 1.77, 95% CI 0.26 to 3.29), and had increased odds of AWG10 (OR: 1.85, 95% CI 1.04 to 3.29) and MetS (OR: 2.29 95% CI 1.18 to 4.44) after adjustment for age, education, work-related factors and lifestyle factors. However, such positive associations were not observed among blue-collar workers.
Conclusions Procrastination and white-collar work might have a joint effect on weight gain during adulthood and consequential obesity.
- time preference
- behavioral economics
- work environment
- occupational health
- obesity prevention
- metabolic syndrome
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Footnotes
Contributors AN designed the study, collected and analyzed data, drafted the manuscript, reviewed and edited the manuscript and contributed discussion. KS reviewed and edited the manuscript and contributed discussion.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent for publication Obtained.
Ethics approval This study aims and protocol were approved by the Ethical Committee of Aichi Medical University.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data availability statement No data are available.