Well-being and occupational roles among middle-aged women

Summary, in English

One purpose of the present study is to explore the stability of the pattern of health/work and sickness absence among middle-aged women over a period of three years. This study tested two hypotheses: (a) that enduringly healthy working women would perceive more valued occupational roles and higher well-being than long-term sick-listed women; (b) that high levels of well-being at baseline would predict enduring health and occupational role value at a 3-year follow-up. Middle-aged women (n = 208) answered a postal survey with the Role checklist, a well-being scale and questions about work and sickness situation. The results showed that there was a considerable variability in the pattern of health/work and sickness absence. The variability was greatest among the women who were long-term sick-listed at baseline, and the internal drop out was great among them. The results showed that the enduringly healthy women experienced a more valued worker role and higher well-being than the long-term sick-listed women. Furthermore, high levels of well-being concerning health and work predicted enduring health in the studied sample, and high well-being concerning work was predictive of a valued worker role. Interventions that enable women to develop valuable worker and leisure roles, as well as harmony between different roles, may be important constituents of health promotion/rehabilitation programmes.

• Författare: Carita Håkansson; Mona Eklund; Jonas Lidfeldt; Christina Nerbrand; Göran Samsioe; Peter Nilsson
• Avdelning/ar: Hållbar vardag och hälsa i ett livsperspektiv; Allmänmedicin och samhällsmedicin; Obstetrik och gynekologi, Lund; Internmedicin - epidemiologi
• Publiceringsår: 2005
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 341-351
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
• Volym: 24
• Issue: 4
• Länkar: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/uxpltf15p57m8dyk/fulltext.pdf
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: IOS Press
• Ämne: Environmental Health and Occupational Health
• Nyckelord: long-term sick-listing; healthy; role value; role imbalance; work satisfaction
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective; Family Medicine and Community Medicine; Internal Medicine - Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1875-9270