Trial reportPloS one2019
Mental and physical health effects of meaningful work and rewarding family responsibilities.
Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Multimodal correlates of socioemotional movie-watching and their associations with internalizing symptoms in childhood and adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Cognitive Reappraisal and Sleep Quality: A Serial Mediation Analysis of Associations Through Meaningful Work and Perceived Stress.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Changes in health after a work-related intervention among highly educated migrants in Norway: a pilot study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The global burden of breast cancer among women of reproductive age: a comprehensive analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of anFood science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Moxie begets MOXI: The journey to a novel hypothesis about Mu-opioid and OXytocin system Interactions.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Review
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- Including highly educated migrants in academia to improve their health-protocol for a pilot intervention.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- "I found myself alone" - A phenomenological study of the home care workers' experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Nursing & health sciences · 2022Article
- Long-Term Effects of the Individual Placement and Support Intervention on Employment Status: 6-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- I'll Be a Caregiver-Employee: Aging of the Workforce and Family-to-Work Conflicts.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- ME-Work: Development and Validation of a Modular Meaning in Work Inventory.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Positive feelings about work and family responsibilities benefit psychological well-being, but their physical health effects remain unexplored. The study assessed whether meaningful work and reward from taking care of family benefitted physical health to the same degree as mental health. Participants were 181 Danes aged 49-51. Participants reported on working conditions, providing care to family, depressive symptoms, and perceived stress. Physical health was operationalized as a physiological dysregulation (e.g., hypertension, high levels of blood sugar and cholesterol, high body mass index). A multidimensional index of physiological dysregulation was created using parameters of cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune function. As expected, meaningful work and sense of reward from taking care of family members were associated with better mental health. However, in women, the very same factors were positively associated with higher physiological dysregulation. We conclude that work and family factors promoting psychological well-being may have physical health trade-offs, particularly in women.
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