OBJECTIVE: To describe and to correlate aspects involved in the perception of both fatigue and stress (perceived and job stress), in footwear industry workers, in function of subjects' anxiety trait, gender and class of work. METHODS: Forty six footwear industry workers were evaluated by instruments as follows: Inventory State-Trait Anxiety (STAI), Yoshitake Fatigue Questionnaire, Work Stress Scale. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was used to register the subjects' perceived stress. The data were analyzed by Student's t test and Pearson's correlation test, being considered, p ≤ 0,05 for all tests. RESULTS: No significant differences in fatigue perception, anxiety trait, perceived and job stress were observed between sexes or work classes. However, significant differences in fatigue perception were observed among workers with different levels (high or low) of anxiety trait (p < 0.001). The correlation patterns among the investigated variables differed in function of subject's sex, class of work and anxiety trait. CONCLUSION: The fatigue perception affects mainly the workers who exhibiting high scores of anxiety trait. Moreover, the registered correlations between the variables suggested that gender, class of work and anxiety trait can modulate the workers perception of fatigue, perceived and job stress.
Fatigue; stress; trait anxiety; workers
