Psychosocial factors at work, personality traits and depressive symptoms

Paterniti, Sabrina; Niedhammer, Isabelle; Lang, Thierry; Consoli, Silla M.

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“…a Another study with electrical workers, which used different instruments and methods, also showed changes in the mental health of such workers. 16,18,21 However, different characteristics and work situations affect comparisons between studies. …”

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Fatores psicossociais do trabalho e transtornos mentais comuns em eletricitários

Souza¹,

Carvalho²,

Araújo³

et al. 2010

Rev. Saúde Pública

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OBJECTIVE:To identify psychosocial aspects of work associated with common mental disorders in workers who maintain electrical transmission lines and equipment. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was performed with 158 workers in the maintenance sector of an electric power company, in Northeastern Brazil. The main independent variable were the psychosocial aspects of work, measured according to the demand-control model (passive job, active job, low-strain job, and high-strain job), while the dependent variable was the prevalence of common mental disorders, measured by the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). The relationships between variables were analyzed in multiple logistic regression models, considering a 5% signifi cance level. RESULTS:The prevalence of common mental disorders was 20.3%, varying according to the four categories of the demand-control model. The high-strain job group showed a prevalence that was 2.7 times higher than that of the lowstrain job group, after adjustment for the "physical activity practice", "leisure", "level of education" and "social support" covariables. CONCLUSIONS:The prevalence of common mental disorders was associated with psychosocial aspects present in the work of electricians, especially high-strain jobs, in addition to high psychological demand and low social support.

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Fatores psicossociais do trabalho e transtornos mentais comuns em eletricitários

Souza¹,

Carvalho²,

Araújo³

et al. 2010

Rev. Saúde Pública

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“…Thus, continuous high job stress can cause a person to remain feeling tense, unable to sleep or concentrate. Stress at work then spills over into other domains of life, causing lower levels of life satisfaction (Hayes and Weathington, 2007), more depressive symptoms (Paterniti et al, 2002), and even psychiatric disorders (Stansfeld et al, 1999). See Nieuwenhuijsen et al (2010) for a systematic review of how job stress causes psychological health deprivation.…”

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Retirement as a Relief? The Role of Physical Job Demands and Psychological Job Stress for Effects of Retirement on Self-Rated Health

2016

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-This study investigates the relationship between retirement and self-rated health, and how this relationship is moderated by experienced pre-retirement physical job 2 demands and psychological job stress. Two waves of Dutch panel data are analyzed, collected between 2003 and 2007, which include information on 819 people who retired between waves and 636 people who remained in employment. It is argued that on the one hand, the time that comes available after retirement is beneficial to health, while on the other hand retirement can represent a relief from demanding work. Conditional change ordered logistic analyses show that indeed, retirement is beneficial for health, but this is largely relative to those who stay in employment, who experience a decline in health. Further, the largest health gains are for those with psychologically stressful jobs. No such support is found for physically demanding jobs. Strengths, limitations, and implications of the study are discussed.

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“…High social support (social integration, low isolation) may buffer this effect. In a general population panel study (42) and 3 workplace cohort studies (43)(44)(45) involving a total of more than 30 000 participants, jobs with low autonomy (skill discretion) and those with high demands increased the psychiatric risk by 24% to 63%. Two of these studies used middle-aged respondents from specific industries (the civil service and the gas and electricity sector) (43,44).…”

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Common Mental Disorders in the Workforce: Recent Findings from Descriptive and Social Epidemiology

2006

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Objective: To review the recent descriptive and social epidemiology of common mental disorders in the workplace, including prevalence, participation, work disability, and impact of quality of work, as well as to discuss the implications for identifying targets for clinical and preventive interventions. Method:We conducted a structured review of epidemiologic studies in community settings (that is, in the general population or in workplaces). Evidence was restricted to the peer-reviewed, published, English-language literature up to the end of June 2005. We further restricted evidence to studies that used recent classification systems; then, if evidence was insufficient, we reviewed studies that used standardized psychiatric screening scales. To distinguish this article from recent reviews of health and work quality, we focused on new areas of investigation and new evidence for established areas of investigation: underemployment, organizational justice, job control and demand, effort-reward imbalance, and atypical (nonpermanent) employment.Results: Depression and simple phobia were found to be the most prevalent disorders in the working population. The limited data on rates of participation suggested higher participation among people with depression, simple phobia, social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder. Depression and anxiety were more consistently associated with "presenteeism" (that is, lost productivity while at work) than with absenteeism, whether this was measured by cutback days or by direct questionnaires. Seven longitudinal studies, with an average sample size of 6264, showed a strong association between aspects of low job quality and incident depression and anxiety. There was some evidence that atypical work was associated with poorer mental health, although the findings for fixed-term work were mixed. Conclusions:Mental health risk reduction in the workplace is an important complement to clinical interventions for reducing the current and future burden of depression and anxiety in the workplace. (Can J Psychiatry 2006;51:63-75) Information on funding and support and author affiliations appears at the end of the article. Clinical Implications· The effect of depression and anxiety on work ability is significant, and maintaining capacity and productivity in the work role is an important goal of clinical treatment. · Quality of work in terms of control and demand, effort-reward imbalance, and organizational justice is a critical social influence on mental health and offers opportunities for mental health promotion and early intervention. · Identifying subpopulations in the workforce that may be at increased risk for depression and anxiety is an important area of future research both to inform early intervention and to encourage access to appropriate treatment. Limitations· Most population-based psychiatric surveys used crude measures of work disability. · Studies on the association of work quality and mental health all relied on screening instruments to assess psychiatric status; thus, these fin...

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Psychosocial factors at work, personality traits and depressive symptoms

Abstract: Adverse psychosocial work conditions are predictors of depressive symptom worsening, independent of personality traits.

Cited by 90 publications

References 25 publications

Fatores psicossociais do trabalho e transtornos mentais comuns em eletricitários

Fatores psicossociais do trabalho e transtornos mentais comuns em eletricitários

Retirement as a Relief? The Role of Physical Job Demands and Psychological Job Stress for Effects of Retirement on Self-Rated Health

Common Mental Disorders in the Workforce: Recent Findings from Descriptive and Social Epidemiology

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