par Casini, Annalisa ;Clays, Els;Godin, Isabelle ;De Backer, Guy;Kornitzer, Marcel ;Kittel, France
Référence (28 mai 2010: Bruxelles), 2010 meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
Publication Publié, 2010
Abstract de conférence
Résumé : Background: This study evaluates whether disparities exist between indicators of mental health (i.e., anxiety, chronic fatigue, and perceived health) in men and women when taking into account isolated job strain – ISO-strain – (Karasek et al., 1998), home-work interference – HWI – (Kelloway et al., 1999), and their interplay. Methods: Data results from pooling 2 large Belgian databases (BELSTRESS III, SOMSTRESS) comprising 4810 workers (2847 women). Gender specific logistic regressions were performed setting as predictor a 4-level variable resulting from the combination of the explanatory variables (low iso-strain and low HWI, high iso-strain and low HWI, low iso-strain and high HWI, and high iso-strain and high HWI) and the mental health indicators as outcomes. Findings: Results after data adjustment for socio-demographic, work, private life, and health related variables, show that women have higher scores for anxiety and chronic fatigue than men, but not for perceiving own personal health as bad. Concerning the interplay of the explanatory variables, when individuals experience high HWI but no high iso-strain, there is little difference between males’ and females’ well-being. Besides, when high iso-strain occurs, but not high HWI, men appear to be more affected than women. Finally while the accumulation of high iso-strain and high HWI affects women mainly via chronic fatigue, the same pattern has a stronger impact on men’s perceived health. Discussion: Further investigations are needed in order to clarify the antecedents and consequences of the articulation between working and private life elements given their implications for productivity, risks of accidents, or sick leave.

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