Understanding Society: Job-related well-being and mental health
Event Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 19 February 2015 - Thursday, 19 February 2015
- Time:
- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- Room:
- 219
- UQ Location:
- Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.lifecoursecentre.org.au/events-archive/19-february-understanding-society-job-related-well-being-and-mental-health-professor-heather-laurie
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Honor Morton
- Phone:
- 56072
- Email:
- honor.morton@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Institute for Social Science Research
Event Description
- Full Description:
- This talk will do two things. First it will introduce Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study which began in 2009 and incorporates the former British Household Panel Survey sample. The main features of the design and content of the study will be outlined and some of the unique aspects of this new longitudinal study for the UK.
Secondly, the some initial findings will be presented from work in progress using Understanding Society data to look at the association between job-related well-being and mental health outcomes. There has been much interest in recent years in measures of job satisfaction as an indicator of job utility and in overall life satisfaction as a measure of ‘happiness’. This analysis uses some alternative measures of job-related well-being to predict mental health outcomes as measured by SF12 (mental component subdomain).
Waves 2 and 4 of Understanding Society collected measures of autonomy, anxiety and depression at work. The key research question is whether job-related well-being is associated with mental health outcomes and to what extent this relationship holds after controlling for objective employment conditions, subjective perceptions of job position and rewards, work identity, individual attributes and family support.
Heather Laurie is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. She is currently Co-investigator on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study a panel survey of individuals in some 40,000 UK households. From October 2009 to November 2014 she was Director of ISER responsible for all aspects of its operation. Her current substantive research focuses on women's employment during the recent Great Recession.
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- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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