Social Origin and Graduation Age: A Cohort Comparison of Danish University Students

Klausen, Trond Beldo

doi:10.1080/00313831.2014.996597

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“…We included variables on SES in adolescence drawn from Danish registers [40,54] because (i) studies have found SES in early life to be a risk factor for depressive disorder [28] and (ii) SES is a potential confounder as it has also been associated with labor force participation in adulthood [57,58] that attenuates the association between work environment factors and labor market exit [59]. In line with previous studies [60,61], variables measuring adolescence SES were maternal and paternal education categorized in five groups according to ISCED, and occupational position categorized in two groups (employed, unemployed/outside the labor force, and a category for missing information) following the guidelines set by ILO [62]. Both variables were measured when the cohort member was 15 years old, but in cases of missing information we retrieved data back to birth or up to age 20.…”

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Psychosocial working conditions and depressive disorder: disentangling effects of job control from socioeconomic status using a life-course approach

Svane-Petersen

Holm

Burr

et al. 2019

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose Job control, the combination of skill discretion and decision authority, is considered a central component of the psychosocial working environment. This longitudinal study examines the relation between job control and risk of incident depressive disorder using a life-course approach. Methods We analyze data from The Danish Work Life Course Cohort study, including all Danish individuals aged 15–30 who entered the Danish labor market during 1995–2009 and were free from depressive disorder at entry (955,573 individuals). We measured job control using a job exposure matrix. Depressive disorders were measured using information from nationwide registers of psychiatric in- and outpatient admissions. Using Cox regression models we estimated the prospective association between job control and risk of incident depressive disorders. Analyses accounted for a range of potential confounders prior to workforce entry including socioeconomic status in adolescence and parental psychiatric and somatic diagnoses prior to labor market entry, together with potential confounders in adulthood including income, education, and demographics. Results Lower levels of past year job control were associated with a higher risk of depressive disorder after adjustment for all covariates (HR = 1.27, 95% CI 1.16–1.38). Results stratified by gender showed associations for both men (HR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.19–1.61) and women (HR = 1.19, 95% CI 1.08–1.32). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the level of job control at work affects the risk of clinically diagnosed depressive disorder, and that this association is not due to confounding by socioeconomic status.

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