Trial reportInternational journal of behavioral medicine2014
Subjective health complaints and self-rated health: are expectancies more important than socioeconomic status and workload?
Trial report in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00741650 (Ibedrift- Health Related Coping. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Worksite Educational Intervention With or Without Referral to Treatment as Usual.), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Ibedrift- Health Related Coping. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Worksite Educational Intervention With or Without Referral to Treatment as Usual.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Protocol for the atWork trial: a randomised controlled trial of a workplace intervention targeting subjective health complaints.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Reduction in sick leave by a workplace educational low back pain intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2016Trial
- Symptom burden in middle-aged women, the role of immigrant status.BMC public health · 2025Article
- School non-attendance and learned helplessness: latent profiles and ROC curves.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Helpful elements in a brief work-oriented intervention targeting musculoskeletal and mental health literacy.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Work changes and employee age, maladaptive coping expectations, and well-being: a Swedish cohort study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2022Article
- Common mental disorders through the eyes of German employees: attributed relevance of work-related causes and prevention measures assessed by a standardised survey.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2019Article
- Pain and self-rated health among middle-aged and older Canadians: an analysis of the Canadian community health survey-healthy aging.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Sickness Absence due to Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: The Exploration of a Predictive Psychological Model Including Negative Moods, Subjective Health and Work Efficacy in an Adult County Population (The HUNT Study).Europe's journal of psychology · 2018Article
- Subjective Health Complaints in Individuals with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: Associations with the Severity of the Skin Condition and Illness Perceptions - A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Work and Mental Complaints: Are Response Outcome Expectancies More Important Than Work Conditions and Number of Subjective Health Complaints?Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2017Article
- Cognitive-Motivational Determinants of Residents' Civic Engagement and Health (Inequities) in the Context of Noise Action Planning: A Conceptual Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- The relationship between pain with walking and self-rated health 12 months following total knee arthroplasty: a longitudinal study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2017Article
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- Who Looks Forward to Better Health? Personality Factors and Future Self-Rated Health in the Context of Chronic Illness.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome expectancies (coping, helplessness, and hopelessness) are also important contributors to health. This is in part as independent factors for health, but coping may also function as a buffer against the impact different demands have on health. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effect of SES (as measured by level of education), physical workload, and response outcome expectancies on subjective health complaints (SHC) and self-rated health, and if response outcome expectancies mediate the effects of education and physical workload on SHC and self-rated health.
methodsA survey was carried out among 1,746 Norwegian municipal employees (mean age 44.2, 81 % females). Structural Equation Models with SHC and self-rated health as outcomes were conducted. Education, physical workload, and response outcome expectancies, were the independent 28 variables in the model.
resultsHelplessness/hopelessness had a stronger direct effect on self-rated health and SHC than education and physical workload, for both men and women. Helplessness/hopelessness fully mediated the effect of physical workload on SHC for men (0.121), and mediated 30 % of a total effect of 0.247 for women. For women, education had a small but significant indirect effect through helplessness/hopelessness on self-rated health (0.040) and SHC (-0.040), but no direct effects were found. For men, there was no effect of education on SHC, and only a direct effect on self-rated health (0.134).
conclusionsThe results indicated that helplessness/hopelessness is more important for SHC and health than well-established measures on SES such as years of education and perceived physical workload in this sample. Helplessness/hopelessness seems to function as a mechanism between physical workload and health.
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