Assessing the Psychosocial Work Environment in Relation to Mental Health: A Comprehensive Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prevailing job stress models encourage a multidimensional view of the psychosocial work environment and highlight the role that multiple co-occurring stressors play in the aetiology of mental health problems. In this study, we develop a latent typology of psychosocial work environment profiles to describe how a comprehensive array of job stressors are clustered in the Canadian labour market. We also examine the association between these latent psychosocial work environment profiles and several indicators of mental health.

Methods

Data were collected from 6408 workers who completed the Canadian National Psychosocial Work Environment Survey. Psychosocial work exposures were measured using standard items from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire. We employed lat

SUBMITTER: Shahidi FV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8091465 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature