Psychosocial work environment and mental health—a meta-analytic review

Can high psychological job demands, low decision latitude, and high job strain predict disability pensions? A 12-year follow-up of middle-aged Swedish workers

“…In all of these instances, the magnitude of the associations we investigated would be inflated. However, this issue has been much debated (Bonde, 2008), and a recent meta-analysis using populations without common mental disorders at the inception of the study concluded that associations between job strain and subsequent poor mental health could not be explained by response bias (Stansfeld and Candy 2006).…”

“…One such factor may involve work-related stress, which has been connected to the development of musculoskeletal (Bongers et al 1993;Östergren et al 2005), psychiatric (Stansfeld and Candy 2006) and cardiovascular (Belkic et al 2004;Kivimäki et al 2006) disease. The three also comprise the most common diagnostic groups that account for retirement on grounds of ill health (Alexanderson and Norlund 2004).…”

Work-related self-efficacy as a moderator of the impact of a worksite stress management training intervention: Intrinsic work motivation as a higher order condition of effect.

“…Workplace stress can have deleterious consequences for both individuals and organisations. For individuals, workplace stress has been linked to an array of health impairments including psychological strain (Stansfeld & Candy, 2006), emotional burnout (Lee & Ashforth, 1996) and musculoskeletal pain (Finestone, Alfeeli, & Fisher, 2008). For organisations, workplace stress can lead to a reduction in desirable workplace behaviours, such as organisational commitment (Jamal, 1990), as well as an increase in undesirable behaviours, such as absence duration (Bakker, Demerouti, de Boer, & Schaufeli, 2003) and turnover intention (Jamal, 1990;Leong, Furnham, & Cooper, 1996).…”

Validating abbreviated measures of effort-reward imbalance at work in European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

“…Work stress was shown to influence the onset as well as disease prognosis (Schnall 2009;Stansfeld 2006;Tsutsumi 2004;Nieuwenhuijsen 2010;Steptoe and Kivimäki 2012) , with some noticeable exceptions (Belkic 2004). Importantly, work stress also contributes to poor self-rated health (Salavecz 2010), functional limitations (Kuper 2002), sick leave (Head 2007) and disability (Blekesaune2005; Dragano 2007).…”