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Sense of Meaning and Purpose Making Mitigates the Experience of Stress Among Hawai'i Farmers.
Farming is widely acknowledged as being extremely challenging and stressful, yet also potentially very meaningful as farming is an important element of any society and connected to our cultural heritage. Only a few studies have empirically examined the association between sense of purpose in farming and well-being/happiness. This study explored whether a sense of meaning and purpose in being a farmer could mitigate the experience of stress. A cross-sectional survey between November 2021-September 2022 was conducted with a sample of 408 Hawai'i agricultural producers. Descriptive statistics and logistic regressions were conducted to explore factors that predicted farmers' endorsement of high meaning and purpose, and whether meaning and purpose could dampen the impact of stressors on the experience of stress. Results revealed that Hawai'i farmers were highly stressed but also had high sense of meaning and purpose. Predictors of meaning and purpose included operating smaller farms of 1-9 acres and having 51% or greater percentage of income from farming. Meaning and purpose in turn decreased odds of stress, and showed an interaction with stressor intensity such that the stress buffering effect of meaning was more salient for those with lower stressors than those with higher stressors OR = 1.12 (CI = 1.06,1.19). One possible stress management and resilience technique is to highlight and strengthen farmers' sense of meaning and purpose in the farming endeavor.
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The Journal of Agromedicine: Practice, Policy, and Research publishes translational research, reports and editorials related to agricultural health, safety and medicine. The Journal of Agromedicine seeks to engage the global agricultural health and safety community including rural health care providers, agricultural health and safety practitioners, academic researchers, government agencies, policy makers, and others. The Journal of Agromedicine is committed to providing its readers with relevant, rigorously peer-reviewed, original articles. The journal welcomes high quality submissions as they relate to agricultural health and safety in the areas of:
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