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The Roles of Financial Threat, Social Support, Work Stress, and Mental Distress in Dairy Farmers’ Expectations of Injury

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Public Health, June 2016
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Title
The Roles of Financial Threat, Social Support, Work Stress, and Mental Distress in Dairy Farmers’ Expectations of Injury
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health, June 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00126
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Authors

Emilia M. Furey, Denis O’Hora, John McNamara, Stephen Kinsella, Chris Noone

Abstract

Farming is dangerous, with fatalities among the highest in any occupation. Farmers often work alone, for long hours, with unreliable equipment and in difficult weather conditions with hazardous chemicals and livestock. In addition, farmers make large financial commitments exposing them to high levels of financial risk. Exposure to such financial risk can give rise to subjective experiences of financial threat (FT) that are psychologically challenging. The current study attempted to characterize the role that FT plays in farm injuries. One hundred and twenty one dairy farmers completed a battery of questionnaires assessing FT, social support (SS), depression, anxiety, farm job stress, and health and safety beliefs. Mental distress directly predicted farmers' expectations of injury and a direct effect of non-financial farm stress (FS) approached significance. Mental distress mediated these relationships as evidenced by significant indirect effects of FS and FT, and SS served to reduce distress. These findings support calls for interventions designed to reduce FS and FT and increase SS for farmers.

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Unknown 71 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 20 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 10 14%
Social Sciences 9 13%
Environmental Science 6 8%
Psychology 6 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 23 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2018.
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#2,156,677
of 24,417,958 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#936
of 12,546 outputs
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#39,162
of 360,000 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#17
of 70 outputs
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