Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study

<h4>Objectives</h4> <p>Stress pathways can have origins in childhood but few early predictors have been explored in relation to adult job stress. This study examined whether childhood school, health or socioeconomic factors were associated with adult job stress.</p> <h4&g...

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Main Authors: Wang, S, Sanderson, K, Venn, A, Dwyer, T, Gall, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing group 2017
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author Wang, S
Sanderson, K
Venn, A
Dwyer, T
Gall, S
author_facet Wang, S
Sanderson, K
Venn, A
Dwyer, T
Gall, S
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description <h4>Objectives</h4> <p>Stress pathways can have origins in childhood but few early predictors have been explored in relation to adult job stress. This study examined whether childhood school, health or socioeconomic factors were associated with adult job stress.</p> <h4>Methods</h4> <p>Data came from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health study that began in 1985 with children aged 7 to 15 years who reported effort-reward imbalance (ERI) scales at ages 31-41 years. Linear regression assessed the association between childhood factors and adult ERI adjusted for age and socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood and adulthood.</p> <h4>Results</h4> <p>There were between 999 and 1,390 participants in each analysis. Lower adulthood ERI, indicating less job stress, was predicted by several school-related factors in men. For example, each higher category of learner self-concept was associated with a 19% (95%CI -32%, -6%) reduction in adult ERI and each unit increase in academic attainment was associated with a 15% (95%CI -28%, -3%) reduction in adult ERI. Childhood health was associated with adult ERI. For example, in women, overweight children had 14% (95% CI: 5%, 22%) higher adult ERI scores compared to healthy weight children and each unit of negative affect was associated with 2% (95%CI: 1%, 4%) increase in adult ERI. Adult SEP had no effect on these associations for men, but explained some of the effect in women. Childhood SEP had inconsistent associations with adult ERI.</p> <h4>Conclusions</h4> <p>Our findings suggests that a range of childhood socioeconomic, school- and health-related factors might contribute to the development of job stress in adulthood.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:17f21dad-cd10-4f9e-8e0c-aabeadb3cceb2022-03-26T10:40:36ZAssociation between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up studyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:17f21dad-cd10-4f9e-8e0c-aabeadb3ccebEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordBMJ Publishing group2017Wang, SSanderson, KVenn, ADwyer, TGall, S <h4>Objectives</h4> <p>Stress pathways can have origins in childhood but few early predictors have been explored in relation to adult job stress. This study examined whether childhood school, health or socioeconomic factors were associated with adult job stress.</p> <h4>Methods</h4> <p>Data came from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health study that began in 1985 with children aged 7 to 15 years who reported effort-reward imbalance (ERI) scales at ages 31-41 years. Linear regression assessed the association between childhood factors and adult ERI adjusted for age and socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood and adulthood.</p> <h4>Results</h4> <p>There were between 999 and 1,390 participants in each analysis. Lower adulthood ERI, indicating less job stress, was predicted by several school-related factors in men. For example, each higher category of learner self-concept was associated with a 19% (95%CI -32%, -6%) reduction in adult ERI and each unit increase in academic attainment was associated with a 15% (95%CI -28%, -3%) reduction in adult ERI. Childhood health was associated with adult ERI. For example, in women, overweight children had 14% (95% CI: 5%, 22%) higher adult ERI scores compared to healthy weight children and each unit of negative affect was associated with 2% (95%CI: 1%, 4%) increase in adult ERI. Adult SEP had no effect on these associations for men, but explained some of the effect in women. Childhood SEP had inconsistent associations with adult ERI.</p> <h4>Conclusions</h4> <p>Our findings suggests that a range of childhood socioeconomic, school- and health-related factors might contribute to the development of job stress in adulthood.</p>
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Sanderson, K
Venn, A
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Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title_full Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title_fullStr Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title_full_unstemmed Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title_short Association between childhood health, socioeconomic and school-related factors and effort-reward imbalance at work: a 25-year follow-up study
title_sort association between childhood health socioeconomic and school related factors and effort reward imbalance at work a 25 year follow up study
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