The Role of Age and Work Experience on Fatigue, Health, and Social Well-being of Employees; a Case Study of Iran Railway Transportation Employees

Introduction: This research investigated the relationship of fatigue, health, and social well-being with demographic variables among Iran railroad operators. Methods: In this regard, 500 locomotive engineers and conductors were randomly selected out of 2400. Then, 413 of the selected participants answered job-organizational factors of locomotive engineers and conductor's questionnaire as well as the personal data sheet, completely. Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha of the questionnaire was 0.891. Its validity was confirmed through pilot study on 50 participants and specialist (CVI = 0.95). Results: For analyzing demographic data, correlation, t-test, and one-way ANOVA tests were conducted through the SPSS 20 software. Results showed that there are statistically significant relationships between employee&rsquo;s age and their fatigue, social well-being and salary, health and work system and fatigue, health and social well-being with job position and work experience (p < 0/001). Conclusion: Furthermore, it was observed that these variables are not significantly related with participants' marital status, having children, kind of passed training, and education