R Fuhrer

TL;DR: Social support and control at work protect mental health while high job demands and effort-reward imbalance are risk factors for future psychiatric disorder.

TL;DR: It is hypothesised that a lack of control in the home and work environments affects depression and anxiety differently for women and men and across three social class groups and future investigations of gender inequalities in health incorporate variables associated with control at home and social position.

TL;DR: The results suggest that a set of both early and current life circumstances cumulatively contribute toward explaining why people of lower socioeconomic status have worse health and lower psychological well-being.

TL;DR: High work social support and high skill discretion were protective against taking short spells of psychiatric sickness absence and the protective effects of social support at work and the potential risk of job demands have implications for management, job design, training, and further research.

TL;DR: It is found that men and women in the higher-paid employment grades, those that had suffered from ill health and those that were less satisfied with their jobs were more likely to retire early, whereas material problems tended to keep people working.