Psychosocial working conditions in a representative sample of working Australians 2001–2008: an analysis of changes in inequalities over time

LaMontagne, Anthony D.; Krnjacki, Lauren; Kavanagh, Anne; Bentley, Rebecca

doi:10.1136/oemed-2012-101171

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“…In the European study (Malard et al 2013), decision latitude was more likely to deteriorate among manual workers, which is in agreement with our results. Finally, in the Australian study (LaMontagne et al 2013), the authors found that inequalities in job control narrowed among young workers compared with older groups and for casual, fixed-term and self-employed compared with permanent workers from 2001 to 2008. They also observed a slight narrowing of disparities over time in job security between genders, age, employment arrangement and occupational skill level groups.…”

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“…Indeed, only two previous studies were prospective (Tsai and Chan 2011;LaMontagne et al 2013), and among these two studies, only one was based on a representative sample at national level (LaMontagne et al 2013). Furthermore, the response rate to the SIP survey in 2006 was satisfactory (76%).…”

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“…The analyses were powerful enough to allow stratification by gender something that may be considered fundamental (Niedhammer et al 2000), and to observe differential changes according to several covariates. To date, only three previous studies explored the differential changes in psychosocial work factors according to age (Cheng et al 2013), occupation (Malard et al 2013), and gender, age, occupational skill level and employment arrangements (a combination of work contract, selfemployed status and working time) but only for job control and job security (LaMontagne et al 2013). …”

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“…The rare studies assessing the changes of psychosocial work factors over time were often limited to specific populations or sectors, to some countries or regions and to a small number of psychosocial work factors (Tsai and Chan 2011;Cheng et al 2013;Houdmont et al 2012;Malard et al 2013;LaMontagne et al 2013;Wang et al 2010). In Taiwan, working hours, excessive work, reward, respect from superiors and colleagues, social support, and job promotion prospects improved among lawyers while "supervisor concerned about the welfare", "supervisor pays attention", interruptions and disturbances at work, and trouble sleeping at night worsened among financial workers between 2007 and 2009 according to a prospective study on 135 financial workers and lawyers (Tsai and Chan 2011).…”

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“…One explanation for these effects is that factors such as gender and race trigger discrimination within internal and external labor markets, which restricts these employees' access to secure jobs with better work designs (Heslin, Bell, & Fletcher, 2012;LaMontagne, Krnjacki, Kavanagh & Bentley, 2013). Discrimination by formal decision-makers then can continue once an individual is within a job.…”

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Work Design Influences: A Synthesis of Multilevel Factors that Affect the Design of Jobs

Parker

Broeck

Holman

2017

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High quality work design is a key determinant of employee well-being, positive work attitudes, and job/organizational performance. Yet many job incumbents continue to experience deskilled and demotivating work. We argue that there is a need to understand better where work designs come from. We review research that investigates the factors that influence work design, noting that this research is only a small fragment of the work design literature. The research base is also rather disparate, spanning distinct theoretical perspectives according to the level of analysis. To help integrate this literature, we use a framework that summarizes the direct and indirect ways in which work design is shaped by the higher-level external context (global/ international, national and occupational factors), the organizational context, the local work context (work group factors), and individual factors. We highlight two key indirect effects: first, factors affect formal decisionmaking processes via influencing managers' work design-related motivation, knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), and opportunities; and second, factors shape informal and emergent work design processes via influencing employees' work design-related motivation, KSAs and opportunities. By reviewing the literature according to this framework, we set the stage for more comprehensive theoretical development and empirical studies on the factors that influence work design. 3Work Design Influences A Synthesis of Multi-Level Factors that Affect The Design of WorkWork design refers to "the content and organization of one's work tasks, activities, relationships, and responsibilities" (Parker, 2014, p. 662). When work is designed so that it has motivating characteristics like job autonomy and social support, as well as reasonable levels of job demands, multiple positive individual and organizational outcomes arise. A vast amount of research shows that work design affects work stress, job satisfaction, performance, absenteeism, accidents, team innovation, company financial revenue, and more (e.g. see the meta analysis by Humphrey, Nahrgang, & Morgeson, 2007).Yet, despite extensive evidence about the benefits of well-designed work, there are still many poorly designed jobs in both advanced and developing economies. For example, in Europe, Lorenz and Valeyre (2005) reported that one third of workers had jobs that were deskilled or that involved excessive demands. Significant technological and societal change is also affecting work and organizing, yet we know little about how this change might affect people's work design (Parker, 2014). Both of these forces -the continued prevalence of poor quality work designs and the vast change occurring in work -highlight the importance of having a comprehensive, evidence-based understanding of the forces that affect work design.Such an understanding is currently lacking. In most theory and research pertaining to the design of jobs, work design is modeled at the start of a causal chain leading to outcomes via intermediary pr...

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Does adolescent depression modify the association between psychosocial job stressors and mental health in emergent adulthood?

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Too,

Witt

et al. 2023

American J Industrial Med

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BackgroundJob stressors can be particularly harmful to the mental health of disadvantaged groups through differential exposure, differential sensitivity to the effects of exposure, or both. In this paper, we assess the extent to which emergent adult workers with an adolescent history of high depression symptoms may be differentially sensitive to the effect of job stressors on mental health.MethodsWe conducted a secondary analysis of three waves of the Australian arm of the International Youth Development Study (n = 1262). We used multivariable linear regression to assess whether self‐reported measures of high depression symptoms at one or two time points in adolescence (ages 11–16 years) modified the cross‐sectional association between four self‐reported job stressors (job demands, job control, job strain, and incivility at work) and psychological distress (Kessler‐10 scores) in emergent adulthood (ages 23–27 years).ResultsFor all four job stressors, there was a consistent pattern of approximately a doubling in the magnitude of association for participants with a history of high depression symptoms at two points in adolescence compared with those with no history of depression. However, results of effect modification analysisfor only job demands and job strain excluded chance as a potential explanation.ConclusionsFindings showed partial support for the hypothesis that a history of high depression symptoms in adolescence predicts stronger associations between job stressor exposures and psychological distress among those employed in emergent adulthood. The limitations of this secondary analysis suggest a need for purpose‐designed studies to answer this important research question more definitively.

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Psychosocial working conditions in a representative sample of working Australians 2001–2008: an analysis of changes in inequalities over time

Cited by 53 publications

References 34 publications

Changes in psychosocial work factors in the French working population between 2006 and 2010

Changes in psychosocial work factors in the French working population between 2006 and 2010

Work Design Influences: A Synthesis of Multilevel Factors that Affect the Design of Jobs

Does adolescent depression modify the association between psychosocial job stressors and mental health in emergent adulthood?

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