Psychosocial job strain as a mediator between physical working conditions and symptoms associated with sick building syndrome

• Authors: Leif W. Rydstedt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether psychosocial working conditions may be a mediator between indoor physical working conditions and the type of vague general health symptoms included in the diagnosis of sick building syndrome (SBS). The study was based on survey data from 1505 British white-collar workers from 20 different organizations. A path analysis revealed that there was a significant direct relation between physical working conditions and vague symptoms and also psychosocial job strain (Effort-Reward Imbalance ratio), which in turn also strongly related to the vague symptoms. The findings thus suggested a mediating role between physical working conditions and symptoms for psychosocial job strain. Due to the cross-sectional study design no conclusions on causality can be drawn.

Keywords

EN

physical psychosocial work environment symptoms

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 440-449

Dates

published

2016-10-01

online

2016-10-17

Contributors

author

Leif W. Rydstedt

• Department for Social Sciences (ASV)Lillehammer University College, Gudbranndalsveien 350, NO-2604 Lillehammer,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/humaff-2016-0037