Are perceived bad working conditions and perceived workplace bullying associated with doctor visits? Results of the nationally representative German General Social Survey

Hajek, André; König, Hans‐Helmut

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“…Subsequently, multiple negative binomial regressions (with robust standard errors) were used to examine the association between post-materialism and the frequency of doctor visits in the past three months (total sample and stratified by sex). Additionally, the association between post-materialism and the reason for doctor visits (outcome measures: reason for doctor visits: acute illness; chronic illness; felt unwell; requesting advice; visit to the doctor's office, but without consulting the doctor; preventive medical check-up/vaccination) was examined using multiple logistic regressions (stratified by sex) [20].…”

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“…Drawing on Andersen's behavioral model [2], covariates were chosen [20]. Predisposing characteristics were included as follows: sex, age, family status (0 = married and living apart; widowed; divorced; never married; civil partnership, living apart; registered partner deceased; civil partnership dissolved; 1 = married and living together with spouse; civil partnership, living together), education (ISCED-97 [21]): basic education, lower secondary, upper secondary, post-secondary, higher tertiary, and upper tertiary).…”

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The Association of Post-Materialism with Health Care Use. Findings of a General Population Survey in Germany

Hajek

König

2020

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(1) The aim of this study was to identify the association between post-materialism and health care use (in terms of the frequency of doctor visits and the reason for doctor visits). (2) Data were taken from the German General Social Survey (a representative sample of individuals aged 18 years and over, n = 3338). The Inglehart’s post-materialist index was used to quantify post-materialism. The doctor visits (self-reported) in the past three months served as an outcome measure. The reasons for seeing a doctor served as an additional outcome measure (acute illness; chronic illness; feeling unwell; requesting advice; visit to the doctor’s office without consulting the doctor (e.g., need to get a prescription); preventive medical check-up/vaccination). (3) After adjusting for several covariates, negative binomial regressions revealed that compared with materialism, post-materialism was associated with decreased doctor visits (total sample; women). Moreover, the likelihood of visiting the doctor for reasons of chronic illnesses was lower in post-materialistic women, whereas the likelihood of visiting the doctor for reasons of preventive medical check-up/vaccination was higher in post-materialistic women. (4) Study findings identify an unexplored link between post-materialism and doctor visits in women. One may conclude that in the long-term, the increased likelihood of preventive medical check-ups in post-materialistic women will be beneficial in decreasing the need for doctor visits for reasons of chronic illnesses. However, future research is required to elucidate the underlying mechanisms.

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The Association of Post-Materialism with Health Care Use. Findings of a General Population Survey in Germany

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2020

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“…is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) study reported that workplace bullying was associated with increased doctor visits, the diagnosis is unknown (13). On the other hand, several qualitative studies have reported that victims of workplace bullying had symptoms of asthma or gastric ulcers (14,15).…”

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Victimization and witnessing of workplace bullying and physician-diagnosed physical and mental health and organizational outcomes: a cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample in Japan

Tsuno

Kawakami

Tsutsumi

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Background: Compared to the numerous reports on mental health outcomes of workplace bullying victims, research on organizational outcomes of witnesses and physical health outcomes of victims and witnesses is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between bullying victimization and witnessing and various physical and mental health outcomes and organizational outcomes such as sickness absence, work performance, and job satisfaction. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data from a nationally representative, community-based sample of 5,000 Japanese residents aged 20-60. We analyzed data from 1,496 respondents after excluding those not working at the time of the survey and those with missing values. Workplace bullying, psychological distress, physical complaints, and job satisfaction were assessed with the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire and work performance with the World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire. In addition, subjective health status, physician-diagnosed mental or physical illness, and sickness absence were asked as one item. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis or Poisson regression analysis was conducted to assess the association between victimization/witnessing workplace bullying and health and organizational outcomes. Results: Both victimization and witnessing workplace bullying were significantly associated with psychological distress, physical complaints, subjective poor health, physician-diagnosed mental disorders, and job dissatisfaction. Victimization of workplace bullying was further associated with physician-diagnosed respiratory diseases, sickness absence (>=7 days), and poor work performance. Victims were absent from work for 4.5 more sick days and had 11.2% lower work performance than non-victims. Conclusions: The results showed that both victimization and witnessing workplace bullying were significantly associated with physical and mental outcomes and various organizational outcomes. Organizations should implement further measures to prevent personal and organizational losses due to workplace bullying.

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“…There is a considerable amount of articles showing that the working environment influences health (Hajek & König, 2019). Some focus more particularly on the effect of earnings (Kronenberg et al., 2017; Reeves et al., 2017), working time (Berniell & Bietenbeck, 2020; Cygan‐Rehm & Wunder, 2018; Lepinteur, 2019; Sánchez, 2017), occupations (Cutler et al., 2008; Mackenbach et al., 2003; Ravesteijn et al., 2018) or occupational health hazard (Karnon et al., 2005; Olsen, 2012; Pouliakas & Theodossiou, 2013).…”

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The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health

Lepinteur

2021

Health Economics

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Is workers' health more sensitive to losses than gains in job security? While loss aversion, whereby losses loom larger than gains, is typically examined in relation to decisions about anticipated outcomes, I first show using a large sample of workers from the European Household Community Panel and value-added models that losses in job security have a larger effect on health than equivalent job security gains. Second, I address endogeneity issues using the 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax as a quasi-natural experiment. It allows evaluating separately the causal impact of exogenous gains and losses in job security on workers' health. Difference-in-differences estimation results confirm that lower job security generates significant and robust losses in self-assessed health. Meanwhile a greater feeling of job security does not translate into a higher level of self-assessed health. These results are in line with the predictions of the model linking job security to health under the hypothesis of loss aversion built in this paper. This article also demonstrates that losses in health induced by lower job security are not transitory.

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Are perceived bad working conditions and perceived workplace bullying associated with doctor visits? Results of the nationally representative German General Social Survey

Cited by 6 publications

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The Association of Post-Materialism with Health Care Use. Findings of a General Population Survey in Germany

The Association of Post-Materialism with Health Care Use. Findings of a General Population Survey in Germany

Victimization and witnessing of workplace bullying and physician-diagnosed physical and mental health and organizational outcomes: a cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample in Japan

The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health

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