1. Relations Between Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Work Ability in Employees with Chronic Headaches
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R.M.C. Schelvis and Margot van der Doef
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Headache Disorders ,Work Capacity Evaluation ,Workload ,Employability ,Burnout ,Social support ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Occupational Therapy ,Life ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,0502 economics and business ,Hoofdpijn ,Sick leave ,WHC - Work, Health and Care ,Humans ,Ziekteverzuim ,Emotional exhaustion ,Workplace ,Netherlands ,Werkstress ,Work engagement ,05 social sciences ,Rehabilitation ,Headache ,Work and Employment ,Middle Aged ,Work Engagement ,Health psychology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Case-Control Studies ,Female ,ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences ,Psychology ,Psychosocial ,Healthy Living ,050203 business & management ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Purpose The aim of the study was to determine (a) to which extent job demands and job resources predict work ability in employees with chronic headaches, and (b) whether work ability in these employees is more hampered by high demands and more enhanced by resources than in employees without chronic disease. Methods All employees with chronic headaches (n = 593) and without chronic disease (n = 13,742) were selected from The Netherlands Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2013. This survey assessed amongst others job characteristics and various indicators of work ability, i.e. sick leave, employability, work engagement, and emotional exhaustion. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted for employees with chronic headaches and compared to employees without chronic disease, controlling for age, gender and educational level. Results In employees with chronic headaches higher quantitative and emotional demands contributed to higher emotional exhaustion, and higher emotional demands to higher sick leave. Higher cognitive demands were however associated with higher work engagement. Higher autonomy was related to higher employability and lower emotional exhaustion. Higher supervisor and colleague support was associated with higher employability, higher engagement and lower emotional exhaustion. Higher supervisor support was associated with lower sick leave. Supervisor support emerged as a stronger predictor for emotional exhaustion in the employees with chronic headaches than in the employees without chronic disease. Conclusions Job demands and job resources are important for work ability in employees with chronic headaches. Furthermore, results suggest that these employees benefit more strongly from supervisor support than employees without chronic disease.
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- 2019
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