Types of employment and their associations with work characteristics and health in Swedish women and men

Asa Samuelsson; Inge Houkes; Petra Verdonk; Anne Hammarstrom

doi:10.1177/1403494811435498

Types of employment and their associations with work characteristics and health in Swedish women and men

Asa Samuelsson^*, Inge Houkes, Petra Verdonk, Anne Hammarstrom

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Abstract

Aim: To investigate whether type of employment was related to work characteristics and health status at age 42 adjusted for health status at age 30 and whether gender moderates the associations. Methods: Questionnaire data was used from a 27-year follow-up study of school-leavers carried out in Lulea in the north of Sweden (response rate 94%). The study population consisted of 877 (47.8% women) working respondents. Data were analysed by means of t-tests, ANOVAs, and multiple linear regression analyses. Results: Men were more often self-employed, while more women had temporary types of employment. Moreover, men reported more control over work and less emotional exhaustion than women. Compared to permanently employed, self-employed (men and women) perceived more control over work and better health status (p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-190
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494811435498
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012

Keywords

Emotional exhaustion
gender
job control
job demands
self-reported health
social support
type of employment

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