英国和芬兰的研究人员通过对2000多名英国公务员(微博)工作状态的调查发现，长工夫工作的人更易患抑郁症，每天工作11个小时以上或每周工作55个小时以上的人则面临更大的风险；此外，最轻易患抑郁症的人群是女性、年轻人和薪酬等级较低且有饮酒习惯的人。调查问卷显示，每天工作11个小时或更长工夫的人患抑郁症的概率比每天工作7-8个小时的职员高2.5倍。研究还发现，大部分长工夫工作的人是拿着高薪、从事颇具挑战性工作的男性，但他们患抑郁症的比例却相对较低。对此，研究人员认为，一种情况是，较高的收入能够缓和心中的抑郁情绪，使他们陶醉在工作之中；另一种可能则是他们拥有更高水平的社会增援，比如来自下属的支持。
Regularly working long hours in the office might increase your risk of a serious depressive episode, according to a new study.
According to findings published in the journal PloS ONE on Wednesday, people who regularly work 11 hours or more each day are more than twice as likely to experience a major episode of depression than colleagues who stick with an eight-hour work day.
Researchers from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and Queen Mary University of London examined records of more than 2,000 London-based white-collar workers in a five-year study. None of the recruits had a recent history of depression when they were enrolled in the study.
