ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2021
Distress, Work Satisfaction, and Work Ability are Mediators of the Relation Between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Mental Health-Related Long-Term Sickness Absence.
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- Work-Related Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Workplace Sickness Absence: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
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- Workplace stress and healthy aging: assessment strategies, research hypotheses, and pilot insights from the Semmelweis study.GeroScience · 2026Review
- Changes in emotional demands at work and subsequent risk of long-term sickness absence: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- How Eudaimonia Impacts Global and Differential Life Satisfaction Independent of the General Mental Health Status.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Psychological problems and work ability in unemployed people diagnosed with a mental illness.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prepartum working conditions predict mental health symptoms 14 months postpartum in first-time mothers and their partners - results of the prospective cohort study "DREAM".BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations of depressive symptoms and psychosocial working conditions with sickness absences in a Finnish cohort of 11,495 employees.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Work-family conflicts and long-term medically certified sickness absence due to mental disorders - a follow-up study of female municipal employees.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Money talks: performance-based reimbursement systems impact on perceived work, health and patient care for physicians in Sweden.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Occupational Stressors and Safety Behaviour among Oil and Gas Workers in Kuwait: The Mediating Role of Mental Health and Fatigue.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Explanatory Factors of Burnout in a Sample of Workers with Disabilities from the Special Employment Centres (SEC) of the Amica Association, Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Purpose This study investigated the effects of psychosocial working conditions on mental health-related long-term sickness absence and whether distress, work satisfaction, burnout, engagement, and work ability mediated the associations between psychosocial working conditions and mental health-related long-term sickness absence. Methods This cohort study included 53,833 non-sick listed workers who participated in occupational health surveys between 2010 and 2013. The effects of the individual psychosocial working conditions on mental long-term sickness absence were analyzed using univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses. Mediation analyses were performed to examine the mediating role of distress, burnout, work satisfaction, engagement, and work ability between psychosocial working conditions and mental long-term sickness absence. The mediation analyses were performed using structural equation modeling. Results Role clarity, cognitive demands, emotional demands, work variety, learning opportunities, and co-worker support were related to mental health-related long-term sickness absence after adjustment for other working conditions. The relationship between emotional demands and mental health-related long-term sickness absence was the strongest, OR 1.304 (p < 0.001, 95% CI 1.135 to 1.498). The relation between psychosocial working conditions and mental health-related long-term sickness absence was mediated by distress, burnout, work satisfaction, engagement, and work ability. Distress was the most important mediator between psychosocial working conditions and mental health-related long-term sickness absence. Conclusions Psychosocial working conditions are related to mental health-related long-term sickness absence. After correction for other working conditions, the association between emotional demands and mental health-related long-term sickness absence was the strongest. Psychosocial working conditions are indirectly related to mental health-related long-term sickness absence through mediation by distress, work satisfaction, and work ability.
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