Psychosocial work environment, job mobility and gender differences in turnover behaviour: a prospective study among the Swedish general population

BMC Public Health

Kjell Torén⁴  Margda Waern²  Lauren Lissner³  Anna-Carin Olin⁴  Linus Schiöler⁴  Annika Rosengren⁵  Annika Härenstam¹  Mia Söderberg⁴ 

[1] Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden;Section of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institution of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Blå Stråket 15, 41345, Gothenburg, Sweden;Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 414, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden;Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institution of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 414, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden;Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SU/Östra, 416 85, Sweden

关键词: Job mobility;    Effort-reward imbalance;    Job demand-control;   

Others  :  1129393
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-605

 received in 2014-03-13, accepted in 2014-06-09,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Throughout the literature, substantial evidence supports associations between poor psychosocial work characteristics and a variety of ill-health outcomes. Yet, few reports strategies workers carry out to improve detrimental work conditions and consequently their health, such as changing jobs. The aim of this study was to examine if adverse psychosocial work exposure, as measured with the job demand-control and effort-reward imbalance models, could predict job mobility over a 5 years observation period.

Method

Participants were working men and women (n = 940; 54.3% women), aged 24–60 years from the population of Gothenburg and surrounding metropolitan area. Job demand-control and effort-reward variables were compared with independent t-tests and chi2-test in persons with and without job mobility. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyse whether psychosocial factors could predict job mobility. All regression analyses were stratified by gender.

Results

Exposure to a combination of high demands-low control or high imbalance between effort and reward was related to increased odds of changing jobs (OR 1.63; CI 1.03-2.59 and OR 1.46; CI 1.13-1.89 respectively). When analysing men and women separately, men had a higher OR of changing jobs when exposed to either high demands-low control (OR 2.72; CI 1.24-5.98) or high effort-reward imbalance (OR 1.74; CI 1.11-2.72) compared to reference values. The only significant associations for women was slightly decreased odds for turnover in high reward jobs (OR 0.96; CI 0.92-0.99).

Conclusions

The results indicate that workers will seek to improve poor work environment by changing jobs. There were notable gender differences, where men tended to engage in job mobility when exposed to adverse psychosocial factors, while women did not. The lack of measures for mechanisms driving job mobility was a limitation of this study, thus preventing conclusions regarding psychosocial factors as the primary source for job mobility.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Söderberg et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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