ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2015
Employment status, working conditions and depressive symptoms among German employees born in 1959 and 1965.
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- A comparison of work environment, job insecurity, and health between marginal part-time workers and full-time workers in Denmark using pooled register data.Journal of occupational health · 2021Article
- Assessment of depression in veterans across missions: a validity study using Rasch measurement models.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017Article
- Association of partner, parental, and employment statuses with self-rated health among German women and men.SSM - population health · 2016Article
- Working conditions, psychosocial environmental factors, and depressive symptoms among wage workers in South Korea.International journal of occupational and environmental health · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeWe investigated whether (1) current employment status (regular full-time, regular part-time and marginal employment) is associated with depressive symptoms and (2) whether these associations are mediated by current working conditions and previous employment history.
methodsTwo cohorts of German employees aged 46 and 52 years were selected from administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency and answered questions about depressive symptoms (we use an applied version of BDI-V) and their current working conditions. In addition, the participants gave written consent to link register data regarding their employment histories (n = 4,207). Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted.
resultsMen experienced elevated depressive symptoms when working regular part-time; women experienced such symptoms when engaged in marginal employment. These associations decreased when we adjusted for job insecurity and rose slightly when we adjusted for leadership quality. Men and women who reported a low level of influence at work showed a higher risk of depressive symptoms. For women, the association between current employment position and depressive symptoms could be partly explained by low levels of influence at work. For men, the association between depressive symptoms and current regular part-time employment decreased when we adjusted for previous part-time employment. Conversely, for women, the association with depressive symptoms increased in current regular part-time and marginal employment when we adjusted for employment history.
conclusionsIn both genders, the observed associations between depressive symptoms and current employment status were mediated by both current psychosocial conditions and employment history. Employees not having a regular full-time job differed from full-time employees with respect to both their current working conditions and their employment history.
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