Psychosocial working conditions and subjective well-being amongst platform workers compared to freelancers and traditional workers in Poland.

. Technological development in the field of access to work has caused changes in the market and developed new strategies of professional activity. Within the gig economy, new forms of work have emerged.

Neural processing of sad and happy autobiographical memories in women with depression and borderline personality disorder.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are reported to have disrupted autobiographical memory (AM). Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we investigated behavioral and neural processing of the recall of emotional (sad and happy) memories in 30 MDD, 18 BPD, and 34 healthy control (HC) unmedicated women. The behavioral results showed that the MDD group experienced more sadness than the HC after the sad recall, while BPD participants experienced less happiness than HC after the happy recall.

[Depressive disorders of working Poles during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2022)].

Background: The problem of the intensification of mental disorders, including depressive disorders, is well documented in the world, but in Poland data on this subject are still insufficient. It can be assumed that the worldwide increase in mental health problems resulting from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the winter of 2019 could also change the current statistics with regard to depressive disorders occurring in Poland.

Material And Methods: Longitudinal studies diagnosing depressive disorders were carried out on a representative group of 1112 Poles working in various occupations, employed on the basis of various types of employment contracts in the period January-February 2021, and a year later.

Worker satisfaction with adaptive automation and working conditions: a theoretical model and questionnaire as an assessment tool.

This article focuses on methods and tools to measure worker satisfaction with reference to industrial automation. Despite technological advances in automation, the role of human workers on industrial shop floors remains crucial. To promote humans' roles, production systems should be designed and organized so workers are valued and get satisfactory jobs.

[Psychosocial working conditions and major depression or depressive disorders: Review of studies].

In the paper the review of studies on the relationship between clinically and subjectively diagnosed depression and psychosocial working conditions has been conducted. Most of these studies include mobbing and stress at work. A large part of them also points to organizational injustice and restructuring, and single studies - long working hours, and work-life imbalance as potential causes of both depression and depressive disorders among working people.

Application of mindfulness-based stress reduction to a stress management intervention in a study of a mining sector company.

Purpose: The aim of this article was to check whether mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an effective intervention in reducing work-related stress in the case of workers in a copper mine.

Methods: Sixty six employees were randomized to the experimental group (32 participants) or to the control group (34 participants). Work-related stress was measured using the job content questionnaire (JCQ) and mental health was measured using the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) Experimental manipulation was 40-h MBSR training.

Associations Between Fixed-Term Employment and Health and Behaviors: What are the Mechanisms?

Objective: To analyze the associations between fixed-term employment and health (work ability and mental health) and behaviors (engagement and performance). Psychological contract fulfilment (PCF) and breach (PCB) are investigated as potential mediators of these associations.

Methods: Seven hundred workers employed on fixed-term contracts from a broad range of organizations participated in the study.

The relationship between work, mental health, physical health, and fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional study.

To evaluate the relationship between work, mental health, physical health, and fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the data of 282 participants were drawn from baseline. The results of structural equation modeling showed that among rheumatoid arthritis patients, those who were engaged in occupational activity had lower levels of fatigue compared to those who did not work and that this relationship was mediated by better mental health, not by physical health.

[Psychological contract in the light of flexible employment: The review of studies].

Changing employment relations between employees and employers due to the increasing employment flexibility have contributed to the development of a new paradigm to analyze these relations based on the concept of psychological contract. This paradigm might be particularly relevant in Poland where the employment flexibility understood as the number of workers with temporary contracts is the highest in Europe. In this paper the concept of psychological contract is presented along with the existing findings related to its range, balance and contract fulfilment vs.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction for managers: a randomized controlled study.

Background: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which was initially used in clinical settings, has also proved to be an effective tool for managing work-related stress in occupational groups inherently exposed to certain psychosocial risks.

Aims: To examine the potential for work-related stress management using MBSR for middle-level managers who are considered to be particularly affected by the negative effects of stress related to organizational restructuring.

Methods: Middle-level managers participated in a randomized controlled study which implemented a 2 (experimental versus control group) × 2 (baseline, post-treatment) study design, yielding a between-group comparison.

[The type of employment contract and employees' health and occupational functioning--The review of studies].

From over 2 decades intensive research concerning temporary workers has been carried out in Europe and outside Europe. Despite having the highest rate of temporary workers in Europe, the studies on this topic are very rare in Poland. The aim of the study was to review the existing research on the relations between temporary work and employees' health and occupational functioning.

Stereotype threat as a determinant of burnout or work engagement. Mediating role of positive and negative emotions.

Stereotype threat as an example of serious interpersonal strain at workplace can lead either to impaired work engagement or it can motivate workers to strengthen their efforts to disconfirm a stereotype and can result in excessive work engagement. Thus, the basic aim of the study was to examine whether stereotype threat is related to burnout or to work engagement. The mediating role of the negative and positive emotions were also tested in the classical approach.

Authentic leadership, social support and their role in workplace bullying and its mental health consequences.

The aim of this study was to show how authentic leadership is related to social support and exposure to workplace bullying and how these variables are related to mental health. For our sample of 820 office workers employed in different Polish organizations and sectors, social support from supervisors moderated the relationship between authentic leadership and workplace bullying. Social support from co-workers moderated the relationship between workplace bullying and mental health and authentic leadership moderated the relationship between workplace bullying and mental health.

Psychometric properties of the Polish version of Karasek's Job Content Questionnaire.

Aim: The objective of this study was to test the psychometric properties of selected scales, namely, Decision Latitude, Psychological Job Demand, Social Support and Job Insecurity, from the Polish version of Karasek's 29-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ).

Method: The study covered 2626 workers from a wide range of occupations. Estimation of internal consistency with Cronbach's α, and both exploratory factor analysis (with principal axis method) and confirmatory factor analysis were the main statistical methods.

Psychological factors at work and musculoskeletal disorders: a one year prospective study.

The etiology of musculoskeletal disorders is complex, with physical and psychosocial working conditions playing an important role. This study aimed to determine the relationship between psychosocial work conditions, such as psychological job demands, decision latitude, social support and job insecurity and musculoskeletal complains (MSCs) and (repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) in a 1-year prospective study. The job content questionnaire, the Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire and provocation tests were used to study 725 employees aged 20-70 years.

[Determinants of quality of life people with physical disability].

Background: 'Ihe aim of the study was to identify determinants of quality of life in people with physical disability.

Materials And Methods: A survey was conducted in a group of 426 people with physical disabilities (mean age, 44.4 years; SD = 12.

Self-perceived quality of life of people with physical disabilities and labour force participation.

The aim of this study was to assess self-perceived quality of life of people with physical disabilities from the perspective of work. The following tools were used in the study: a personal questionnaire, an SF-36v2 questionnaire, an I-E Scale at Work and a Polish adaptation of the Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index. The study involved 426 disabled persons aged 18-65.

Work time control and mental health of workers working long hours: the role of gender and age.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between work time control and mental health in workers working long hours. The study also attempted to show how that relationship depended on age and gender. Three hundred and six white-collar workers doing clerical work for over 8 h daily were diagnosed on work time control and mental health with the 28-item General Health Questionnaire.

[Adaptation of the working environment to the capacities of workers with physical, intellectual and mental disabilities].

The occupational activity index among people with disabilities in Poland is still one of the lowest in Europe. Employers' resistance to employ these people is considered to be one of its major reasons. It stems from employers' fear of their low productivity and the need to adapt the work environment to their psychophysical capacities.

[The role of psychosocial work factors in the development of musculoskeletal disorders in workers].

The aim of the study was to determine the role of psychosocial work factors in the development of musculoskeletal disorders in workers. It should be stressed that over a decade these disorders have been the subject of studies because of complaints reported not only by workers performing heavy physical work or working in awkward, forced body posture. It has also been acknowledged that stress at work caused by various psychosocial work factors can significantly influence their development.

[Acquired musculoskeletal dysfunction syndromes in workers in the light of epidemiological studies].

Acquired musculoskeletal dysfunction syndromes (overload syndromes) that cause limitation of the system efficiency belong nowadays to the most serious problems in the medical care of workers. The etiology of overload syndromes is multifactorial, which means that occupational factors constitute only one of many causes fostering the development of those disorders. Occupational factors which increase the risk of musculoskeletal disorders include physical factors related to the work environment or the way the work is performed, such as body posture, value of exerted forces, movement repetitiveness, load handling, mechanical vibration or microclimate as well as psychosocial factors, such as quantitative and qualitative overload, lack of control, lack of social support or work insecurity.

[The Polish version of the SF-36v2 questionnaire for the quality of life assessment].

The American questionnaire SF-36 Health Survey is a worldwide tool used to assess the quality of life. It becomes increasingly popular also in Poland. Unfortunately, the existing Polish studies that used the questionnaire are not entirely reliable because different linguistic versions have been applied in the studies.

[Frequency of burnout syndrome in office worker].

Background: Burnout syndrome is a chronic, physical and emotional exhaustion associated with the intensity of stress at work, especially in occupations involving the provision of services. The purpose of the study was to establish the frequency of burnout syndrome in the group of office workers using computer and having direct contact with inquirers.

Material And Methods: The study group consisted of 487 office workers, aged 37.

An intervention to reduce work-related burnout in teachers.

The objective of the study was to develop and evaluate a 2-day burnout intervention program focused at enhancing coping with stresses observed in teachers' work. Karasek's job stress model was used as the theoretical framework. The aim of the intervention was to teach participants to deal better with high job demands and low job control.