Quality of work predicts mental health
RTWMatters team
There is a strong link between work quality and mental health, and some workers are slugged by multiple psychosocial negatives, according to new Canadian / Australian research.Negative and positive psychosocial factors cluster at work: people who describe one negative factor are likely to report others. In this research, four distinct groups emerged, ranging from a group with consistently high quality work to a group with consistently poor quality work, from a psychosocial perspective. Job quality strongly predicts mental health. In this research, the biggest differences between people in psychosocially heal...