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ArticleScientific reports2022

Associations of suffering with facets of health and well-being among working adults: longitudinal evidence from two samples.

Richard G Cowden, Andrew J Seidman, Charlotte Duffee, Dorota Węziak-Białowolska, Eileen McNeely, Tyler J VanderWeele

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Richard G CowdenHuman Flourishing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. rcowden@fas.harvard.edu.
Andrew J SeidmanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Charlotte DuffeeHuman Flourishing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dorota Węziak-BiałowolskaHuman Flourishing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Eileen McNeelySustainability and Health Initiative (SHINE), Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Tyler J VanderWeeleHuman Flourishing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Abstract

Suffering is an experiential state that every person encounters at one time or another, yet little is known about suffering and its consequences for the health and well-being of nonclinical adult populations. In a pair of longitudinal studies, we used two waves of data from garment factory workers (Study 1 [T1: 2017, T2: 2019]: n = 344) and flight attendants (Study 2 [T1: 2017/2018, T2: 2020]: n = 1402) to examine the prospective associations of suffering with 16 outcomes across different domains of health and well-being: physical health, health behavior, mental health, psychological well-being, character strengths, and social well-being. The primary analysis involved a series of regression analyses in which each T2 outcome was regressed on overall suffering assessed at T1, adjusting for relevant sociodemographic characteristics and the baseline value (or close proxy) of the outcome assessed at T1. In Study 1, associations of overall suffering with worse subsequent health and well-being were limited to a single outcome on each of the domains of physical health and mental health. Overall suffering was more consistently related to worse subsequent health and well-being in Study 2, with associations emerging for all but two outcomes. The pattern of findings for each study was largely similar when aspects of suffering were modeled individually, although associations for some aspects of suffering differed from those that emerged for overall suffering. Our findings suggest that suffering may have important implications for the health and well-being of worker populations.

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AnxietyMental HealthAdultHealth BehaviorHumans

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