Gendered Trajectories of Work Control and Health Outcomes in the Middle Years

Wickrama, K. A. S.; Lorenz, Frederick O.; Fang, Shu-Ann; Abraham, William T.; Elder, Glen H.

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“…Figure 1 illustrates the selection process followed to determine eligibility. Included studies comprised 12 prospective cohort studies[12,36-40,129-134] and 1 retrospective case-control study[35]. …”

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“…All studies were conducted in Europe or North America. Among the 13 studies reviewed, 6 were derived from independently designed longitudinal cohorts [35,36,38-40,129], while the 7 remaining studies involved two independently designed longitudinal cohorts, namely the National Population Health Survey [12,130,132,133], and the Whitehall study [37,131,134]. A wide range of outcome measurement was used for psychological distress or depression, burnout was not investigated by any studies.…”

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“…Overall, seven of the included studies were of relatively high methodological quality[12,35,39,40,130,132,133]. An examination of the analytical breadth of the selected studies revealed that all studies considered the family level of analysis, while a majority of them also extended their analyses to the networks [12,36-39,131,133,134] and/or the community or society (as per Table 1)[12,40,130-134]. The rest of this section discusses the strength of evidence for each analytical level of social organization and its indicators as reported in Table 3.…”

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“…Two high-quality studies from the NPHS cohort reported a significant yet inverted effect of household income on major depressive disorders and psychological distress among men[130,132]. Two low-quality studies[36,38] found supportive evidence of an effect of life events, of which one from the GAZEL cohort reported results of modest magnitude for men and of high magnitude for women. In both studies, measurement of life events included items related to family members (e.g., partner, child, parent) and to the extended network (e.g., relatives, friends).…”

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“…From the same cohort, two low-quality studies [131,134] reported mixed evidence for network structural features (e.g., number of people in the network, frequency of contacts). As for network stressors, the conclusive results obtained by combining objectively measured network- and family-level life events, discussed above[36,38], were not reproduced when one high-quality study[133] jointly considered community-level events with network-level events. As for subjective measures, one high-quality study from the NPHS cohort reported strong protective effects for non-work social support[12], whereas two low-quality studies from the Whitehall cohort[131,134] noted modest to strong effects.…”

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What do we know about the non-work determinants of workers' mental health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

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BackgroundIn the past years, cumulative evidence has convincingly demonstrated that the work environment is a critical determinant of workers' mental health. Nevertheless, much less attention has been dedicated towards understanding the pathways through which other pivotal life environments might also concomitantly intervene, along with the work environment, to bring about mental health outcomes in the workforce. The aim of this study consisted in conducting a systematic review examining the relative contribution of non-work determinants to the prediction of workers' mental health in order to bridge that gap in knowledge.MethodsWe searched electronic databases and bibliographies up to 2008 for observational longitudinal studies jointly investigating work and non-work determinants of workers' mental health. A narrative synthesis (MOOSE) was performed to synthesize data and provide an assessment of study conceptual and methodological quality.ResultsThirteen studies were selected for evaluation. Seven of these were of relatively high methodological quality. Assessment of study conceptual quality yielded modest analytical breadth and depth in the ways studies conceptualized the non-work domain as defined by family, network and community/society-level indicators. We found evidence of moderate strength supporting a causal association between social support from the networks and workers' mental health, but insufficient evidence of specific indicator involvement for other analytical levels considered (i.e., family, community/society).ConclusionsLargely underinvestigated, non-work determinants are important to the prediction of workers' mental health. More longitudinal studies concomitantly investigating work and non-work determinants of workers' mental health are warranted to better inform healthy workplace research, intervention, and policy.

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Trajectories of job demands and control: risk for subsequent symptoms of major depression in the nationally representative Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH)

Åhlin

Westerlund

Griep

et al. 2017

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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PurposeDepression is a global health concern. High job demands, low job control, and the combination (high strain) are associated with depression. However, few longitudinal studies have investigated changed or repeated exposure to demands and control related to depression. We investigated how trajectories of exposure to job demands and control jointly influence subsequent depression.MethodsWe included 7949 subjects from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, who completed questionnaires of perceived job demands and control, and depressive symptoms from 2006 to 2014. None of them were depressed between 2006 and 2012. Univariate and joint group-based trajectory models identified groups with similar development of demands and control across 2006–2012. Logistic regression estimated the risk for symptoms of major depression in 2014 according to joint trajectory groups.ResultsThe joint trajectory model included seven groups, all with fairly stable levels of demands and control over time. Subjects in the high strain and active (high demands and high control) trajectories were significantly more likely to have subsequent major depressive symptoms compared to those having low strain, controlling for demographic covariates (OR 2.15; 95% Cl 1.24–3.74 and OR 2.04; 95% CI 1.23–3.40, respectively). The associations did not remain statistically significant after adjusting for previous depressive symptoms in addition to demographic covariates.ConclusionsThe results indicate that the levels of job demands and control were relatively unchanged across 6 years and suggest that long-term exposure to a high strain or active job may be associated with increased risk for subsequent depression.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00420-017-1277-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men's Mental and Physical Health During the Middle Years: Mediational Role of Personal Control

Wickrama

Surjadi²,

Lorenz³

et al. 2008

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Gendered Trajectories of Work Control and Health Outcomes in the Middle Years

Abstract: Through understanding these processes, work can be better designed to promote positive health outcomes, minimize negative health outcomes, and allow for better formulation and more effective implementation of health promotional programs.

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What do we know about the non-work determinants of workers' mental health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

What do we know about the non-work determinants of workers' mental health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

Trajectories of job demands and control: risk for subsequent symptoms of major depression in the nationally representative Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH)

The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men's Mental and Physical Health During the Middle Years: Mediational Role of Personal Control

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