Relationship of work stress with eating behavior and obesity: Theoretical and empirical considerations

espanolLas transformaciones en el mundo del trabajo, y los desafios que representan los contextos laborales, son lineas de analisis y reflexion que destacan en los ultimos anos, por sus efectos sobre los estilos de vida y la salud de las personas y las organizaciones. Cada vez mas personas en el mundo presentan sobrepeso u obesidad, y los escenarios laborales no escapan a esta situacion. El objetivo de este articulo fue realizar una revision sistematica de las investigaciones que se han hecho en los ultimos anos sobre la relacion del estres laboral con la conducta alimentaria y la obesidad, a partir de los hallazgos arrojados por ocho bases de datos cientificas y un buscador academico de Internet. Se encontro que 50% de los articulos reportan una correlacion positiva entre estres laboral e indice de masa corporal, mientras que 33% informan que cuanto mayor es el estres, mayor es el riesgo de presentar alteraciones en la conducta alimentaria, lo que puede reflejarse en obesidad o sobrepeso. Los hallazgos permiten proponer conclusiones orientadas hacia la pertinencia de profundizar en el estudio de la relacion entre estres laboral y conducta alimentaria, dadas las graves consecuencias que suponen para la poblacion trabajadora y la sociedad. EnglishThe changing world of work and the challenges emerging from labor contexts for economically active persons are lines of analysis and reflexion that stand out in recent years by the effects it poses to the health and lifestyles of people and organizations. More and more people in the world are overweight or obese, where labor scenarios do not escape from this situation. The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic review of research that has been published in recent years on the relationships of work stress with eating behavior and obesity, based on the findings emerging from eight scientific databases and an academic search engine. It has been found that 50% of the consulted papers report a positive correlation between job stress and body mass index, while 33% of the studies found that occupational stress is accompanied by eating disorder, reflected as obesity or overweight. These results indicate the relevance and necessity of further study on the correlation between occupational stress and eating behaviour, because the serious impact that it should imply on health problems on the working population, and its repercussion on the whole society.

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