Do good psychosocial working conditions prolong working lives? Findings from a prospective study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: Due to an ageing population, governments in European countries are striving to keep older workers longer in the workforce. Remarkably few studies have paid attention to the influence of psychosocial working conditions on timing of retirement for older workers in and beyond normative retirement age. The aim of the present study was to examine whether good psychosocial working conditions contribute to prolonged working lives among older workers (59 years and above). A particular question was whether such conditions increase in importance with age. Seven waves (2006-2018) of the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH) were used (N = 6000, observations = 10,632). Discrete-time event history analyses showed that higher levels of job resources (decision authority [OR 1.

SUBMITTER: Stengard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424473 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature