Does adolescent depression modify the association between psychosocial job stressors and mental health in emergent adulthood?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Job stressors can be particularly harmful to the mental health of disadvantaged groups through differential exposure, differential sensitivity to the effects of exposure, or both. In this paper, we assess the extent to which emergent adult workers with an adolescent history of high depression symptoms may be differentially sensitive to the effect of job stressors on mental health.

Methods

We conducted a secondary analysis of three waves of the Australian arm of the International Youth Development Study (n = 1262). We used multivariable linear regression to assess whether self-reported measures of high depression symptoms at one or two time points in adolescence (ages 11-16 years) modified the cross-sectional association between four self-reported job stressors (jo

SUBMITTER: LaMontagne AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952472 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature