Low income families and occupational health: implications of economic stress for work-family conflict research and practice

Sinclair, Robert R.; Probst, Tahira M.; Hammer, Leslie B.; Schaffer, Meline M.

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“…Our findings demonstrate the criterion validity of the ODI and further illuminate the nomological network of occupational depression. Our results are consistent with findings emanating from research on job stress and antidepressant medicine ( 41 , 42 ), workplace bullying and health ( 43 ), and economic stress and employee wellbeing ( 44 , 45 ).…”

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Italian version of the Occupational Depression Inventory: Validity, reliability, and associations with health, economic, and work-life characteristics

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BackgroundThe Occupational Depression Inventory (ODI) reflects a new approach to job-related distress centered on work-attributed depressive symptoms. The instrument was developed with reference to the characterization of major depression found in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition. The ODI has been validated in English, French, and Spanish. This study (a) investigated the psychometric and structural properties of the ODI's Italian version and (b) inquired into the nomological network of occupational depression.MethodsA convenience sample of 963 employed individuals was recruited in Italy (69.9% female; mean age = 40.433). We notably relied on exploratory structural equation modeling bifactor analysis, common-practice confirmatory factor analysis, and Mokken scale analysis to examine our dataset.ResultsOur analyses indicated that the Italian version of the ODI meets the requirements for essential unidimensionality, thus justifying the use of the instrument's total score. The ODI's reliability was excellent. Measurement invariance held across sexes, age groups, and occupations. Occupational depression was negatively associated with general wellbeing and positively associated with a 12-month history of depressive disorder, current antidepressant intake, 12-month sick leave, 6-month physical assault at work, 6-month verbal abuse at work, lack of money for leisure activities, and financial strain in the household.ConclusionsThe ODI's Italian version exhibits robust psychometric and structural properties, suggesting that the instrument can be fruitfully used for addressing job-related distress in Italian-speaking populations. Furthermore, the present study relates occupational depression to important health, economic, and work-life characteristics, including past depressive episodes, antidepressant medication, sickness-related absenteeism, workplace violence, and economic stress.

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“…Employees who face marginalization based on their race (Din-Dzietham, Nembhard, Collins, & Davis, 2004), gender (Jung, 2009), sexual orientation (Cerf, 2016), income (Sinclair, Probst, Hammer, & Schaffer, 2013), or immigration status (Torres, Santiago, Walts, & Richards, 2018) experience, on average, greater workplace stress and/or reduced options to mitigate such stress’s harmful effects. Our framework provides insight into how this detrimental cycle can be reversed.…”

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An Explanation of Personality Change in Organizational Science: Personality as an Outcome of Workplace Stress

Smallfield

Kluemper

2021

Journal of Management

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Organizational scholarship has recently begun to treat personality as malleable in workplace settings and has called for personality change to be incorporated into current research. The lack of a comprehensive, theoretical model of organizational personality change is a critical impediment to this research. We integrate recent advances in biological and epigenetic fields with the cognitive appraisal, personality, and stress literatures to introduce a comprehensive model of short- and long-term organizational personality change. This model explains when, how, and why appraisal of workplace stress alters employee personality through three important neurochemical systems and the mechanisms through which changes in these systems differentially impact dimensions of the Five Factor personality framework. By examining epigenetic changes affecting neurochemical systems, we explain how appraisal of chronic workplace stress can lead to long-term changes in various personality traits—a relationship with substantial implications for both practice and research. This model further provides a roadmap to understand how short- and long-term employee personality change influences workplace outcomes at the individual, team, and organizational levels and how interventions at these levels can mitigate or reverse deleterious effects of workplace stressors on employee personality change. We outline the processes necessary for organizational scholars to test the propositions described here and more robustly incorporate personality change into organizational scholarship.

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“…Similarly, while some researchers have called for further attention to low-income workers (e.g. Bond & Galinsky, 2011;Leana, Mittal, & Stiehl, 2012;Sinclair, Probst, Hammer, & Schaffer, 2013), for the most part, such workers have received insufficient attention in the literature (Bergman & Jean, 2016). Studies of occupationally (and income) diverse samples may be needed to fully understand the relationship between income and occupational health.…”

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Money Matters: Recommendations for Financial Stress Research in Occupational Health Psychology

Sinclair

Cheung

2016

Stress Health

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Money is arguably the most important resource derived from work and the most important source of stress for contemporary employees. A substantial body of research supports the relationship between access to financial resources and health and well-being, both at individual and aggregated (e.g. national) levels of analysis. Yet, surprisingly little occupational health psychology research has paid attention to financial issues experienced specifically by those in the labour force. With these issues in mind, the overarching goal of the present paper was to address conceptual and measurement issues in the study of objective and subjective aspects of financial stress and review several assessment options available to occupational health psychology researchers for both aspects of financial stress. Where appropriate, we offer guidance to researchers about choices among various financial stress measures and identify issues that require further research attention. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Low income families and occupational health: implications of economic stress for work-family conflict research and practice

Cited by 11 publications

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Italian version of the Occupational Depression Inventory: Validity, reliability, and associations with health, economic, and work-life characteristics

Italian version of the Occupational Depression Inventory: Validity, reliability, and associations with health, economic, and work-life characteristics

An Explanation of Personality Change in Organizational Science: Personality as an Outcome of Workplace Stress

Money Matters: Recommendations for Financial Stress Research in Occupational Health Psychology

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