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Job insecurity in white-collar workers: toward an explanation of associations with health.
Jane E. Ferrie,Martin J. Shipley,Michael Marmot,Pekka Martikainen,Stephen Stansfeld,George Davey Smith +5 more
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Examination of changes in psychosocial work characteristics (job strain model) and health-related behaviors as potential explanations of the job insecurity-health relationship in a longitudinal cohort of white-collar British civil servants found little in adverse changes in these factors.Abstract:
This article describes 2 studies that examined changes in psychosocial work characteristics (job strain model) and health-related behaviors as potential explanations of the job insecurity-health relationship in a longitudinal cohort of white-collar British civil servants. Job insecurity arising from anticipation of change was associated with a modest increase in self-reported morbidity, whereas chronic job insecurity was associated with some adverse physiological changes. Anticipation of change and chronic job insecurity were associated with adverse changes in other psychosocial work characteristics, but few changes were significant and consistent across both exposure groups. Changes in health-related behaviors associated with either exposure were slight. Apart from a minor role for social support at work in both sexes and a modest role for job demands in women, adverse changes in these factors explain little of the job insecurity-health relationship.read more
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Psychosocial work environment and mental health--a meta-analytic review
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Effects of chronic job insecurity and change in job security on self reported health, minor psychiatric morbidity, physiological measures, and health related behaviours in British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
TL;DR: Loss of job security has adverse effects on self reported health and minor psychiatric morbidity, which are not completely reversed by removal of the threat and which tend to increase with chronic exposure to the stressor.
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Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
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A Prospective Study of Change in Sleep Duration: Associations with Mortality in the Whitehall II Cohort
Jane E. Ferrie,Martin J. Shipley,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Eric J. Brunner,Michelle A. Miller,Meena Kumari,Michael Marmot +6 more
TL;DR: This is the first study to show that both a decrease in sleepduration and an increase in sleep duration are associated with an increaseIn mortality via effects on cardiovascular death and non-cardiovascular death respectively.
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