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01-03-2015 | Original Paper

The multilevel determinants of workers’ mental health: results from the SALVEO study

Authors: Alain Marchand, Pierre Durand, Victor Haines III, Steve Harvey

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 3/2015

Abstract

Purpose

This study examined the contribution of work, non-work and individual factors on workers’ symptoms of psychological distress, depression and emotional exhaustion based on the multilevel determinants of workers’ mental health model.

Methods

Data from the SALVEO Study were collected in 2009–2012 from a sample of 1,954 employees nested in 63 workplaces in the province of Quebec (Canada). Multilevel regression models were used to analyse the data.

Results

Altogether, variables explain 32.2 % of psychological distress, 48.4 % of depression and 48.8 % of emotional exhaustion. Mental health outcomes varied slightly between workplaces and skill utilisation, physical and psychological demands, abusive supervision, interpersonal conflicts and job insecurity are related to the outcomes. Living in couple, having young children at home, family-to-work conflict, work-to-family conflict, strained marital and parental relations, and social support outside the workplace associated with the outcomes. Most of the individual characteristics also correlated with the three outcomes. Importantly, non-work and individual factors modulated the number and type of work factors related to the three outcomes.

Conclusion

The results of this study suggest expanding perspectives on occupational mental health that fully recognise the complexity of workers’ mental health determinants.

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Title: The multilevel determinants of workers’ mental health: results from the SALVEO study
Authors: Alain Marchand
Pierre Durand
Victor Haines III
Steve Harvey
Publication date: 01-03-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0932-y

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