Synergistic interaction effect between job control and social support at work on general psychological distress.

Purpose: Little is known about the interaction between job control and social support at work on common mental disorders. To examine whether there is a synergistic interaction effect between job control and social support at work on general psychological distress and whether it differs by the level of job demands.

Methods: About 1,940 male and female workers from the Malmö Shoulder and Neck Study were chosen for this cross-sectional study.

Psychosocial working conditions and exhaustion in a working population sample of Swedish middle-aged men and women.

Background: Exhaustion is a concept of interest for both occupational health research and stress-disease theory research. The aim of the present study was to explore associations between chronic stressors, in terms of psychosocial working conditions, and exhaustion in a Swedish middle-aged population sample.

Methods: A vocationally active population sample of the Malmö Shoulder and Neck Study cohort, comprising 2555 men and 2466 women between 45 and 64 years of age, was used.

Conflict between the work and family domains and exhaustion among vocationally active men and women.

Exhaustion is consistently found to be more prevalent in women than in men. Women suffer from job strain more often, which may constitute a partial explanation for this phenomenon, but experienced shortcomings in combining work and family demands may also contribute to ill health. The aim of this study was to investigate, and analyse by gender, how work-related and family-related factors, as well as the interface between them, i.