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Environmental Influences: The Workplace and Mental Health—Models, Vulnerability Factors, and Interventions

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Much of the adult life is spent in the workplace. Working provides many benefits in terms of financial resources, social status, boosting self-esteem, and providing a social network. However, the workplace can have negative as well as positive effects on mental health and behavioral disorders. High levels of demands at work without the compensation of control over work, an imbalance between effort put in and reward received, bullying and discrimination at work, and job insecurity have been related to a greater risk of common mental disorders. Conversely, social support from supervisors and colleagues can have positive effects on mental health at work.

Health effects in the workplace vary by position in the life course and a number of markers of potential vulnerability. Research has shown that some groups are at high risk of mental health problems and the workplace can convey an additional risk. Risk markers include gender, ethnicity, sexuality, previous mental health problems, and learning disabilities. Those starting work and older people may also be vulnerable to health effects related to work.

We present the relatively few workplace organizational interventions and individual interventions tackling primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of ill health. There are considerable limitations to current research on the workplace and health and many areas that need further development and objective measurement. There is a need for a substantial amount of further research to identify effective workplace based interventions to improve the health of the economically most important sector of the population.

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Stansfeld, S., Dinos, S., Raffel, J. (2014). Environmental Influences: The Workplace and Mental Health—Models, Vulnerability Factors, and Interventions. In: Sloboda, Z., Petras, H. (eds) Defining Prevention Science. Advances in Prevention Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7424-2_10

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