Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to assess the association between long working hours, psychosocial safety climate (PSC), work engagement (WE) and new major depression symptoms emerging over the next 12 months. PSC is the work climate supporting workplace psychological health.

Setting

Australian prospective cohort population data from the states of New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.

Participants

At Time 1, there were 3921 respondents in the sample. Self-employed, casual temporary, unclassified, those with working hours <35 (37% of 2850) and participants with major depression symptoms at Time 1 (6.7% of 1782) were removed. The final sample was a population-based cohort of 1084 full-time Australian employees.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Zadow AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211051 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature