Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: the Whitehall II study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies of organisational justice and mental health have mostly examined women and have not examined the effect of change in justice.

Aim

To examine effects of change in the treatment of employees by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) on minor psychiatric morbidity, using a cohort with a large proportion of men.

Methods

Data are from the Whitehall II study, a prospective cohort of 10 308 white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 at baseline) (Phase 1, 1985-88). Employment grade, relational justice, job demands, job control, social support at work, effort-reward imbalance, physical illness, and psychiatric morbidity were measured at baseline. Relational justice was assessed again at Phase

SUBMITTER: Ferrie JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2092506 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature