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Occupational Medicine Advance Access originally published online on August 23, 2006
Occupational Medicine 2007 57(1):18-24; doi:10.1093/occmed/kql088
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Racial discrimination, ethnicity and work stress

Emma Wadsworth1, Kamaldeep Dhillon2, Christine Shaw1, Kamaldeep Bhui2, Stephen Stansfeld2 and Andrew Smith1

1 Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, Cardiff University, 63 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AS, UK
2 Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary, University of London, Charterhouse Square, London E1M 6BQ, UK

Background Previous research has suggested higher work stress among minority ethnic workers.

Aims To determine levels of work stress in three ethnic groups, consider the contribution of racial discrimination to the groups' profiles of occupational and demographic associations with stress, and assess the association between work stress and well-being.

Methods A household quota sample design was used, and 204 black African–Caribbean, 206 Bangladeshi and 216 white (UK born) working people took part in structured interviews.

Results More black African–Caribbean respondents reported high work stress than either Bangladeshi or white respondents. Reported racial discrimination among black African–Caribbean female respondents was strongly associated with perceived work stress. Among the black African–Caribbean respondents, women who reported experiencing racial discrimination at work had higher levels of psychological distress.

Conclusions Perceived work stress may be underpinned by exposure to racial discrimination at work among black African–Caribbean women, and this may affect their psychological well-being.

Keywords      Ethnicity; racial discrimination; work stress

Correspondence to: E. Wadsworth, Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, Cardiff University, 63 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AS, UK. Tel: +44 29 2087 6599; fax: +44 29 2087 6399; e-mail: wadsworthej{at}cardiff.ac.uk


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