Stress at Work and Well-being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study in Switzerland.

Objective: The aim of the study is to analyze the development of conditions at work and health-related variables (notably exhaustion) in Switzerland longitudinally before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Questionnaire data were collected from a population-based sample of 1,553 employees in February 2020 and 1 year later. Health and well-being associated with ( a ) working conditions in general and ( b ) COVID-19-specific predictors such as worries about being infected and conditions for working at home were analyzed using analysis of (co)variance and multiple regression.

Commuting as a work-related demand: Effects on work-to-family conflict, affective commitment, and intention to quit.

Commuting time is the duration of the transition between the work and private (typically family) domains. The status of commuting in theories dealing with work-family issues or boundary management is not very clear. We discuss commuting taking a different perspective from the literature (e.

Who gains the most from improving working conditions? Health-related absenteeism and presenteeism due to stress at work.

Work stress-related productivity losses represent a substantial economic burden. In this study, we estimate the effects of social and task-related stressors and resources at work on health-related productivity losses caused by absenteeism and presenteeism. We also explore the interaction effects between job stressors, job resources and personal resources and estimate the costs of work stress.

SOS-Appreciation overboard! Illegitimacy and psychologists' job satisfaction.

In the globalized and rapidly evolving work environment, deficiencies in job design are a common reason that employees must sometimes complete tasks that are not directly connected to their occupational role. Individuals with a clear vision of their occupational role and duties in particular, such as psychologists, might consider such tasks as an offense to self. According to the "Stress-as-Offense-to-Self" (SOS) concept, so-called "illegitimate tasks" do not respect a person's occupational identity-threatening the self through disrespect.

Ten-year trajectories of stressors and resources at work: Cumulative and chronic effects on health and well-being.

Employing 5 waves of measurement over a period of 10 years, we explored the effects of exposure to constellations of conditions at work on physical and psychological strain, estimating the history of exposure over time. Specifically, we first tested if the 4 constellations postulated by the job demand-control (JDC) model, extended to include social stressors, could be identified empirically over time through a person-centered analysis. Second, we tested 2 specific effects of the history of exposure on physical and psychological strain: (i.

Does work stress make you shorter? An ambulatory field study of daily work stressors, job control, and spinal shrinkage.

Body height decreases throughout the day due to fluid loss from the intervertebral disk. This study investigated whether spinal shrinkage was greater during workdays compared with nonwork days, whether daily work stressors were positively related to spinal shrinkage, and whether job control was negatively related to spinal shrinkage. In a consecutive 2-week ambulatory field study, including 39 office employees and 512 days of observation, spinal shrinkage was measured by a stadiometer, and calculated as body height in the morning minus body height in the evening.