The importance of low control at work and home on depression and anxiety: do these effects vary by gender and social class?

Abstract

In this study we consider both a gender model, a model that focuses on the stress associated with social roles and conditions in the home environment, and a job model, which addresses the stressful characteristics of the work environment, to investigate patterns of women's and men's psychological morbidity

Correlates of Depression in the Slovenian Working Population

“…Chronic stress is an important cause of depression and anxiety (26,31). As previous studies have shown, the working environment is an important source of long-term stress (32).…”

Health in an unequal world: social circumstances, biology and disease

“…64 We had similar findings for mental illness. 65 We have had a programme of work investigating the high rates of morbidity and mortality in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, of which Fig 3 is but one example. 66,67 In the Czech Republic, as in Whitehall II, low control at work was associated with risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and contributed to the social gradient in occurrence of MI.…”

The understanding of Norwegian women’s sickness absence: towards a holistic approach?

“…The importance of perceived equity in domestic work and a satisfactory relationship for self-rated health was the strongest for the dimensions that measured psychological health. Also, findings from other studies (Glass, 1994;Griffin, 2002) have revealed an association between factors related to domestic work and women's psychological well-being. These studies have found that the inequity in the division of domestic work to be a greater contributory factor to women's psychological distress than the amount of domestic work.…”

“…Few studies have examined the separate impact of domestic work on women's health, but there are some notable exceptions (Staland-Nyman et al, 2007;Chandola, 2004;Glass, 1994;Griffin et al, 2002;Östlund et al, 2004). Staland-Nyman et al (2007) have found an association between strains in domestic work measured as 'domestic job strain' and 'domestic work equity and marital satisfaction', on the one hand, and self-rated health, on the other.…”