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Psychosocial job quality, mental health, and subjective wellbeing: a cross-sectional analysis of the baseline wave of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health.
- Source :
- BMC Public Health; 2016 Suppl 3, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p33-41, 9p, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Employment status and working conditions are strong determinants of male health, and are therefore an important focus in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health (Ten to Men). In this paper, we describe key work variables included in Ten to Men, and present analyses relating psychosocial job quality to mental health and subjective wellbeing at baseline.<bold>Methods: </bold>A national sample of males aged 10 to 55 years residing in private dwellings was drawn using a stratified multi-stage cluster random sample design. Data were collected between October 2013 and July 2014 for a cohort of 15,988 males, representing a response fraction of 35 %. This analysis was restricted to 18-55 year old working age participants (nā=ā13,456). Work-related measures included employment status, and, for those who were employed, a number of working conditions including an ordinal scale of psychosocial job quality (presence of low job control, high demand and complexity, high job insecurity, and low fairness of pay), and working time-related stressors such as long working hours and night shift work. Associations between psychosocial job quality and two outcome measures, mental ill-health and subjective wellbeing, were assessed using multiple linear regression.<bold>Results: </bold>The majority of participants aged 18-55 years were employed at baseline (85.6 %), with 8.4 % unemployed and looking for work, and 6.1 % not in the labour force. Among employed participants, there was a high prevalence of long working hours (49.9 % reported working more than 40 h/week) and night shift work (23.4 %). Psychosocial job quality (exposure to 0/1/2/3+ job stressors) prevalence was 36 %/ 37 %/ 20 %/ and 7 % of the working respondents. There was a dose-response relationship between psychosocial job quality and each of the two outcome measures of mental health and subjective wellbeing after adjusting for potential confounders, with higher magnitude associations between psychosocial job quality and subjective wellbeing.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>These results extend the study of psychosocial job quality to demonstrate associations with a global measure of subjective wellbeing. Ten to Men represents a valuable new resource for the longitudinal and life course study of work and health in the Australian male population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- QUALITY of work life
WORK-life balance
JOB satisfaction
MEN'S mental health
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
UNEMPLOYMENT & psychology
WORK & psychology
EMPLOYMENT
COMPARATIVE studies
LONGITUDINAL method
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
MEN'S health
MENTAL health
MULTIVARIATE analysis
POWER (Social sciences)
QUALITY of life
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH
SOCIAL justice
WORK
EMPLOYEES' workload
EVALUATION research
CROSS-sectional method
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712458
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127914528
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3701-x