ArticleScandinavian journal of work, environment & health2020
The mediating effect of work-life interference on the relationship between work-time control and depressive and musculoskeletal symptoms.
Article in Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05199415 (Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Shift work, work time control, and informal caregiving as risk factors for sleep disturbances in an ageing municipal workforce.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Pooled it
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- Associations of self-rated health, depression, and work ability with employee control over working time.Epidemiology and health · 2025Article
- Long Working Hours, Work-life Imbalance, and Poor Mental Health: A Cross-sectional Mediation Analysis Based on the Sixth Korean Working Conditions Survey, 2020-2021.Journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Impact of work-life interference on burnout and job discontent: A one-year follow-up study of physicians in Sweden.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Article
- Working hours and health - key research topics in the past and future.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Review
- Prospective effects of work-time control on overtime, work-life interference and exhaustion in female and male knowledge workers.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Evaluation of an Online Course Promoting Health and Wellbeing for University Students and Employees.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
- The Effect of Employee-Oriented Flexible Work on Mental Health: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Temporal Dimensions of Job Quality and Gender: Exploring Differences in the Associations of Working Time and Health between Women and Men.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees' Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Work-Time Control and Exhaustion: Internal Work-to-Home Interference and Internal Home-to-Work Interference as Mediators.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Using Participatory Working Time Scheduling Software on Employee Well-Being and Workability: A Cohort Study Analysed as a Pseudo-Experiment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Association of work-time control with sickness absence due to musculoskeletal and mental disorders: An occupational cohort study.Journal of occupational health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Objectives Evidence shows that work-time control (WTC) affects health but underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Work-life interference (WLI) might be a step on the causal pathway. The present study examined whether WLI mediates effects on mental and physical health and contrasted these to other causal pathways. Methods Four biennial waves from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH, N=26 804) were used. Cross-lagged analyses were conducted to estimate if WLI mediated effects from WTC (differentiating between control over daily hours and time off) to subsequent depressive and musculoskeletal symptoms. Other causal directions (reversed mediation, direct and reversed direct effects) and robustness of mediation (by including covariates) were examined. Results WLI partially mediated the relationship of WTC (control over daily hours/time off) with both health outcomes. Indirect effect estimates were small for depressive symptoms (-0.053 for control over time off and -0.018 for control over daily hours) and very small for musculoskeletal symptoms (-0.007 and -0.003, respectively). While other causal directions were generally weaker than causal mediational pathways, they played a larger role for musculoskeletal compared to depressive symptoms. Estimates relating to control over time off were in general larger than for control over daily hours. Conclusions Our results suggest that WLI mediates part of the effect from WTC to mental/musculoskeletal symptoms, but small estimates suggest that (i) WTC plays a small but consistent role in effects on health and (ii) particularly regarding musculoskeletal disorders, other causal directions and mediators need to be further examined.
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