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Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life
BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8921582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34625518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217607 |
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author | Wahrendorf, Morten Chandola, Tarani Goldberg, Marcel Zins, Marie Hoven, Hanno Siegrist, Johannes |
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description | BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from the French CONSTANCES cohort, with information on adverse employment histories between ages 25 and 45 and a composite score of AL (based on 10 biomarkers, range 0–10) among people aged 45 or older (47 680 women and 45 035 men). Data were collected by questionnaires (including retrospective employment histories) or by health examinations (including blood-based biomarkers). We distinguish six career characteristics: number of temporary jobs, number of job changes, number of unemployment periods, years out of work, mode occupational position and lack of job promotion. RESULTS: For both men and women, results of negative binomial regressions indicate that adverse employment histories are related to higher levels of AL, particularly histories that are characterised by a continued disadvantaged occupational position, repeated periods of unemployment or years out of work. Findings are adjusted for partnership, age and education, and respondents with a health-related career interruption or early retirement are excluded. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights physiological responses as a mechanism through which chronic stress during working life is linked to poor health and calls for intervention efforts among more disadvantaged groups at early stages of labour market participation. |
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spelling | pubmed-89215822022-03-25 Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life Wahrendorf, Morten Chandola, Tarani Goldberg, Marcel Zins, Marie Hoven, Hanno Siegrist, Johannes J Epidemiol Community Health Original Research BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from the French CONSTANCES cohort, with information on adverse employment histories between ages 25 and 45 and a composite score of AL (based on 10 biomarkers, range 0–10) among people aged 45 or older (47 680 women and 45 035 men). Data were collected by questionnaires (including retrospective employment histories) or by health examinations (including blood-based biomarkers). We distinguish six career characteristics: number of temporary jobs, number of job changes, number of unemployment periods, years out of work, mode occupational position and lack of job promotion. RESULTS: For both men and women, results of negative binomial regressions indicate that adverse employment histories are related to higher levels of AL, particularly histories that are characterised by a continued disadvantaged occupational position, repeated periods of unemployment or years out of work. Findings are adjusted for partnership, age and education, and respondents with a health-related career interruption or early retirement are excluded. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights physiological responses as a mechanism through which chronic stress during working life is linked to poor health and calls for intervention efforts among more disadvantaged groups at early stages of labour market participation. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-04 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8921582/ /pubmed/34625518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217607 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Wahrendorf, Morten Chandola, Tarani Goldberg, Marcel Zins, Marie Hoven, Hanno Siegrist, Johannes Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title | Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title_full | Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title_fullStr | Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title_full_unstemmed | Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title_short | Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
title_sort | adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8921582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34625518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217607 |
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