{"title":"When Being Intrinsically Motivated Makes You Vulnerable: Illegitimate Tasks and their Associations with Strain, Work Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention","authors":"Marcus J. Fila, N. Semmer, M. Kern","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00140-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00140-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86752561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindy E Bergman, Vanessa A Gaskins, Tammy Allen, Ho Kwan Cheung, Mikki Hebl, Eden B King, Robert R Sinclair, Rose L Siuta, Corrine Wolfe, Alexandra I Zelin
{"title":"The Dobbs Decision and the Future of Occupational Health in the US.","authors":"Mindy E Bergman, Vanessa A Gaskins, Tammy Allen, Ho Kwan Cheung, Mikki Hebl, Eden B King, Robert R Sinclair, Rose L Siuta, Corrine Wolfe, Alexandra I Zelin","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00143-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00143-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Access to abortion care has a profound impact on women's ability to participate in the workforce. In the US, restrictions on abortion care have waxed and waned over the years, including periods when abortion was broadly permitted across the nation for most pregnant people for a substantial proportion of pregnancy and times when restrictions varied across states, including states where abortion is banned for nearly all reasons. Additionally, access to abortion care has always been a reproductive justice issue, with some people more able to access this care than others even when it is structurally available. In June 2022, the US Supreme Court handed down the <i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</i>, returning to states the ability to determine restrictions on abortion, including near-total bans on abortion. In this anthology, ten experts share their perspectives on what the Dobbs decision means for the future, how it will exacerbate existing, well-researched issues, and likely also create new challenges needing investigation. Some contributions are focused on research directions, some focus on implications for organizations, and most include both. All contributions share relevant occupational health literature and describe the effects of the Dobbs decision in context.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-37"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940085/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9159278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naomi M Fa-Kaji, Elisabeth R Silver, Mikki R Hebl, Danielle D King, Eden B King, Abby Corrington, Isabel Bilotta
{"title":"Worrying About Finances During COVID-19: Resiliency Enhances the Effect of Worrying on Both Proactive Behavior and Stress.","authors":"Naomi M Fa-Kaji, Elisabeth R Silver, Mikki R Hebl, Danielle D King, Eden B King, Abby Corrington, Isabel Bilotta","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00130-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00130-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic instability, many people are contending with financial insecurity. Guided by Conservation of Resources Theory (Hobfoll, American Psychologist 44:513-524, 1989; Hobfoll et al., Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 5:103-128, 2018), the current research explores the consequences of experiencing financial insecurity during a pandemic, with a focus on individuals who report relatively higher rates of financial insecurity, performance challenges, and stress during such experiences: working parents (American Psychological Association, 2022). This research also examines the role that personal resources, in the form of trait resiliency, play in the relationships between financial insecurity and behavioral and psychological outcomes including worrying, proactive behaviors, and stress. In a study of 636 working parents and their children, we find that financial insecurity heightens worrying, underscoring the threatening nature of the loss or anticipated loss of material resources. Worrying, in turn, promotes proactive behaviors at work-an effect that is more pronounced among high-resiliency individuals. However, worrying is also associated with elevated stress among high-resiliency individuals, providing support for a trait activation perspective (rather than buffering hypotheses) on ongoing, uncontrollable adversities. Taken together, our results help to (1) illuminate the impact of financial insecurity on work and well-being, (2) reveal a mechanism (i.e., worrying) that helps explain the links between financial insecurity and work and personal outcomes, and (3) expand our knowledge of the implications trait resiliency has for both psychological and behavioral reactions to ongoing crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"111-142"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734500/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9212555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gargi Sawhney, Corina Jimenez-Gomez, Peter Cook, Kristin M Albert
{"title":"Isolated and Stressed? Examining the Effects of Management Communication in Alleviating Mental Health Symptoms during COVID-19.","authors":"Gargi Sawhney, Corina Jimenez-Gomez, Peter Cook, Kristin M Albert","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00133-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00133-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goal of this research was to assess the role of professional isolation on mental health symptoms via stress among employees working remotely due to COVID-19. Additionally, this research explored the interactive effect of management communication on the relationship between professional isolation and stress, and stress and mental health symptoms. In Study 1, behavior analysts who were working remotely as a result of the pandemic completed assessments of professional isolation, stress, and mental health symptoms at two points in time, separated by two weeks. Study 2 replicated and extended the findings from Study 1 in a sample of remote employees recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk using a three-wave design. Findings of both Study 1 and Study 2 suggested that stress mediated the relationship between professional isolation and mental health symptoms. Additionally, management communication buffered the association between stress and mental health symptoms in Study 2. Lastly, the indirect effect of professional isolation on mental health symptoms was stronger for those who received less communication from their management. The findings of these two studies expand our understanding of the mechanism and boundary condition through which professional isolation is related to mental health symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"89-110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9707423/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9527457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ailsa Niven, Graham Baker, Eva Coral Almeida, Samantha G Fawkner, Ruth Jepson, Jillian Manner, Sarah Morton, Glenna Nightingale, Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Claire Fitzsimons
{"title":"\"Are We Working (Too) Comfortably?\": Understanding the Nature of and Factors Associated with Sedentary Behaviour When Working in the Home Environment.","authors":"Ailsa Niven, Graham Baker, Eva Coral Almeida, Samantha G Fawkner, Ruth Jepson, Jillian Manner, Sarah Morton, Glenna Nightingale, Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Claire Fitzsimons","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00128-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-022-00128-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Home working has increased due to COVID-19, but little is known about how this change has impacted the health risk behaviour of elevated sedentary time. The aim of this cross-sectional exploratory study was to assess occupational sitting behaviour when working at home, and use the Capability Opportunity Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model to identify influences on this behaviour. University staff (n = 267; 69% female; 92% white) who were predominantly working from home completed a questionnaire to assess sitting time, sitting breaks, demographic and occupational characteristics, and a 7-item COM-B questionnaire and open-ended questions to assess influences on time spent sitting whilst working from home. Data were analysed descriptively, a repeated measures ANOVA was used to determine differences in the COM-B items, and binary logistic regression was used to examine predictors of sitting time. Staff spent on average 89.5% (SD = 17.1) of their time sitting whilst working at home, and took an average of 1.36 (1.38) sitting breaks per hour. There were significant and meaningful differences in the influence of the COM factors on ability and willingness to reduce sitting behaviour (p < .0001; η<sub>p</sub> <sup>2</sup> = .38), and the open-ended responses added further context. The included variables accounted for 20.7% of variance in sitting behaviour, with age, sitting breaks, motivation-automatic, and opportunity-physical contributing significantly. Working from home leads to elevated levels of sitting, and the COM-B provides a useful model to identify key influences on ability and willingness to reduce sitting. Strategies incorporating regular breaks, habit formation/reversal, and restructuring the physical environment may be beneficial.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"71-88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9708134/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9527461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear and Trembling While Working in a Pandemic: an Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Workers' COVID-19 Distress.","authors":"William P Jimenez, Ian M Katz, Elissa A Liguori","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00131-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00131-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of workers and taken its toll on health and well-being. In line with recent calls for more inductive and abductive occupational health science research, we exploratorily meta-analyzed workers' COVID-19 distress, defined as psychological and psychosomatic strain contextualized to experiencing the virus and pandemic broadly. We identified many existing COVID-19 distress measures (e.g., Fear of COVID-19 Scale by Ahorsu et al., <i>International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction</i>, 2020; Coronavirus Anxiety Scale by Lee, <i>Death Studies, 44</i>(7), 393-401, 2020a) and correlates, including demographic variables (viz., gender, marital status, whether worker has children), positive well-being (e.g., quality of life, perceived social support, resilience), negative well-being (e.g., anxiety, depression, sleep problems), and work-related variables (e.g., job satisfaction, burnout, task performance). Additionally, we found preliminary evidence of subgroup differences by COVID-19 distress measure and country-level moderation moderators (viz., cultural values, pandemic-related government response) as well as COVID-19 distress's incremental validity over and above anxiety and depression. The findings-based on <i>k</i> = 135 independent samples totaling <i>N</i> = 61,470 workers-were abductively contextualized with existing theories and previous research. We also call for future research to address the grand challenge of working during the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately develop a cumulative occupational health psychology of pandemics.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41542-022-00131-x.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"39-69"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9702905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9527459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Sonnentag, Maria U. Kottwitz, Theresa J S Koch, Jette Völker
{"title":"Enrichment and Conflict Between Work and Health Behaviors: New Scales for Assessing How Work Relates to Physical Exercise and Healthy Eating","authors":"S. Sonnentag, Maria U. Kottwitz, Theresa J S Koch, Jette Völker","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00134-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00134-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"108 1","pages":"251 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76421397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca M. Brossoit, Tori L. Crain, Shalyn C. Stevens, Jacqueline R Wong, Lori Guasta
{"title":"Correction to: Alert at Work? Perceptions of Alertness Testing and Recommendations for Practitioners","authors":"Rebecca M. Brossoit, Tori L. Crain, Shalyn C. Stevens, Jacqueline R Wong, Lori Guasta","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00139-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00139-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74931648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Cabrera, Benjamin J. Trachik, M. Ganulin, M. Dretsch, A. Adler
{"title":"Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilience Scale in Deployed and Non-Deployed Soldiers","authors":"O. Cabrera, Benjamin J. Trachik, M. Ganulin, M. Dretsch, A. Adler","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00138-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00138-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"399 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72912461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronit Montal-Rosenberg, Peter A. Bamberger, Mo Wang, M. Larimer, Samuel B. Bacharach
{"title":"Newcomer Drinking Behavior and Immediate Post-College Earnings Growth: Does Occupational Social Intensity Make a Difference?","authors":"Ronit Montal-Rosenberg, Peter A. Bamberger, Mo Wang, M. Larimer, Samuel B. Bacharach","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00126-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00126-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"16 1","pages":"219 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82321218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}