SynthesisInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2023
Psychosocial work factors affecting mental health of young workers: a systematic review.
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- Aspects of young employees' mental health: a narrative review.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2026Review
- The association of psychosocial work quality with changes in the mental health of young adults starting career work.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Meta Self-Efficacy Internet Intervention to Support Occupational Health in Young Employees: Protocol for Co-Creation and a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Presenteeism Caused by Health Conditions and Its Economic Impacts Among Japanese Workers in the Post-COVID-19 Era.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Japanese medical researchers' perceptions of quantitative research evaluation metrics and their psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Unraveling the interplay between mental workload, occupational fatigue, physiological responses and cognitive performance in office workers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Psychosocial work stressors and mental health in Ph.D. students in Germany-Evidence from two cross-sectional samples.PloS one · 2024Article
- Work characteristics and emotional exhaustion among young workers: a latent class analysis.BMJ open · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveFor the general working population, robust evidence exists for associations between psychosocial work exposures and mental health. As this relationship is less clear for young workers, this systematic review aims at providing an overview of the evidence concerning psychosocial work factors affecting mental health of young workers.
methodsThe electronic databases used were PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO and were last searched in October 2021. The eligible outcomes included depression-, stress-, burnout- and anxiety-related complaints, and fatigue, excluding clinical diagnoses and suicide-related outcomes. Only studies with workers aged 35 years or younger were included, which reported at least one association between a psychosocial work factor as exposure and a mental health complaint as outcome. Studies had to be in English, German or Dutch. Risk of bias was assessed using an instrument from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Data synthesis was conducted using GRADE.
resultsIn total 17 studies were included in this systematic review, including data from 35,600 young workers in total. Across these studies 86 exposure-outcome associations were reported. Nine exposure-outcome associations could be synthesised. The application of the GRADE framework led to one "low" assessment for the association between psychosocial job quality and mental health. The certainty of evidence for the other eight associations in the synthesis was very low.
conclusionsThe current systematic review disclosed a high degree of uncertainty of the evidence due to conceptually fuzzy outcomes and exposures as well as large heterogeneity between studies.
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