ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2020
Psychosocial working conditions and depressive disorder: disentangling effects of job control from socioeconomic status using a life-course approach.
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- Psychosocial Occupational Exposures and Mental Illness.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2022Pooled it
- How do employment conditions and psychosocial workplace exposures impact the mental health of young workers? A systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Workplace Interventions Supporting Young Workers' Safety, Work Environment and Health: A Scoping Review of Qualitative and Mixed-Method Studies.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Development of a European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for psychosocial exposures and their association with diagnosed depression in register-based cohorts.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Factors affecting major depression in Iran: a mixed-method study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Review
- Reported harassment and mental ill-health in a Canadian prospective cohort of women and men in welding and electrical trades.Annals of work exposures and health · 2024Article
- Does adolescent depression modify the association between psychosocial job stressors and mental health in emergent adulthood?American journal of industrial medicine · 2024Article
- Psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence among younger employees in Denmark: a register-based cohort study using job exposure matrices.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- Job control, job demands and job strain and suicidal behaviour among three million workers in Sweden.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- Emotional demands at work and risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder in up to 1.6 million Danish employees: a prospective nationwide register-based cohort study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2022Article
- Cumulated and most recent job control and risk of disability pension in the Danish Work Life Course Cohort (DaWCo).European journal of public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeJob control, the combination of skill discretion and decision authority, is considered a central component of the psychosocial working environment. This longitudinal study examines the relation between job control and risk of incident depressive disorder using a life-course approach.
methodsWe analyze data from The Danish Work Life Course Cohort study, including all Danish individuals aged 15-30 who entered the Danish labor market during 1995-2009 and were free from depressive disorder at entry (955,573 individuals). We measured job control using a job exposure matrix. Depressive disorders were measured using information from nationwide registers of psychiatric in- and outpatient admissions. Using Cox regression models we estimated the prospective association between job control and risk of incident depressive disorders. Analyses accounted for a range of potential confounders prior to workforce entry including socioeconomic status in adolescence and parental psychiatric and somatic diagnoses prior to labor market entry, together with potential confounders in adulthood including income, education, and demographics.
resultsLower levels of past year job control were associated with a higher risk of depressive disorder after adjustment for all covariates (HR = 1.27, 95% CI 1.16-1.38). Results stratified by gender showed associations for both men (HR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.19-1.61) and women (HR = 1.19, 95% CI 1.08-1.32).
conclusionsOur findings suggest that the level of job control at work affects the risk of clinically diagnosed depressive disorder, and that this association is not due to confounding by socioeconomic status.
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