This paper examines whether the relationship between parental work and adolescents’ well‐being would be mediated through parenting behaviour. The primary focus was on the experiences of adolescents. Questionnaire‐based data from families (both parents and one children, n=77) and adolescents (n=126) were collected in Finland in 2000 and 2001, respectively. The adolescents were on average 14 years old. Results showed that the relationships between parents’ negative work experiences and adolescents’ depression (all perceived by adolescents) were partially mediated by adolescents’ experience of lessened autonomy granting in parenting and increased conflicts between parents and adolescents. In addition, the relations between fathers’ negative work experiences and adolescents’ negative attitude regarding school (all reported by adolescents) were mediated by adolescents’ perceptions of increased conflicts between fathers and adolescents.

The purpose of this follow-up study was to investigate stability and change in depressive mood and possible explanatory factors between ages 13 to 16. The sample consisted of 116 Finnish adolescents (50 boys and 66 girls) drawn from two junior high schools in Central Finland.The data were obtained by means of questionnaires which were completed by the same adolescents three times, in 1999 (mean age 13.0 years), in 2001 (mean age 14.7 years), and in 2002 (mean age 15.9 years). The semiparametric group-based mixture modeling revealed four developmentally different trajectories in depressive mood, two indicating stability and two showing change in the level of symptoms over time. The majority (63%) of the adolescents (typically boys) managed the transition phase without depressive feelings while one quarter (typically girls) tended to experience some depressive thoughts and feelings throughout the follow-up. There was a small group of adolescents (6.5%) among whom symptoms increased until the end of follow-up, and another group (5.5%) who suffered from depressive mood only at the beginning of the follow-up. Variability in adolescents' depressive mood wasconnected to conflicts with parents (especially with fathers) and experiences of negative spillover from parental (especially fathers') work to the parent–adolescent relationship. Furthermore, the relationships between an adolescent and his/her parents (especially the father) seemed to become gradually more distant throughout the follow-up, and most of the life changes were experienced in the beginning of the junior high school.

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Background: Night shift work often implies shorter sleep duration and this can lead to sleepiness, which has been associated with an increased risk of accidents and injuries. The aim is to study how the number of consecutive night shifts affects self-reported sleepiness. Participants and methods: The study was a quasi-experimental, within-subject crossover study with 73 police officers. Three work schedules of two, four, and seven consecutive night shifts followed by the same number of recovery days, i.e., days worked or days off, was performed by all participants. Sleepiness was self-reported using the Karolinska sleepiness scale (KSS) every fourth hour on the last night shift and the last recovery day in each sequence. Results: We observed differences in the level of sleepiness between recovery days and night shift days but no differences in the pattern of sleepiness levels on night shift days in the different work schedules. The highest levels of KSS were observed before bedtime (at 07:00 after a night shift and 23:00 on a recovery day). Conclusion: The number of consecutive night shifts did not affect the self-reported levels of self-reported sleepiness among Danish police officers.