Hugo Westerlund

Biographic Data

ID196664
NAMEHugo Westerlund
GIVEN NAMESHugo
FAMILY NAMEWesterlund
SIGNATUREWESTERLUND H
AFFILIATIONSStockholm University
ORCID0000-0002-8806-5698
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS74
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Impacts of changing work from home patterns on health behaviours and obesity

    Open AccessAuriba Raza, Paraskevi Peristera et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    These findings suggest, although the associations were weak, that work from home could offer opportunities for individuals to be more conscious of their health and to engage in healthier behaviours

  • Examining associations between upsizing, downsizing, workplace offensive behaviors and sickness absence due to common mental disorders – a longitudinal cohort study

    Open AccessMaria Wijkander, Rebecka Holmgren et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Although this study did not find a link between organizational upsizing/downsizing and later sickness absence due to SA-CMD, it suggests that upsizing may be associated with certain types of workplace offensive behaviors. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms associated with these dynamics

  • Active labour market policies in emerging adulthood may act as a protective factor against future depressiveness

    Open AccessP Virtanen, Tapio Nummi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Drawing upon the framework of life course epidemiology, this study aligns with research on the mental health consequences of significant social transitions during early adulthood. The focus is on the variation in initial labour market attachment and the development of depressiveness, assuming that a firm attachment is associated with decreasing depressiveness. Methods: = 1,001) took place during their final year of compulsory school…

  • Suicidal ideation and thoughts of self-harm during the Covid-19 pandemic among Swedish employees

    Open AccessSven Blomqvist, Hugo Westerlund et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2024

    The results suggested a higher risk of suicidal ideation connected with loss of employment and survival of a downsizing, but not a forced reduction in working times/pay during the COVID-19 pandemic. The association for subjective job insecurity was less robust and may be partly explained by personality

  • Are trajectories of self-rated health and physical working capacity during the retirement transition predicted by work-related factors and social class

    Open AccessHarpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir, Paraskevi Peristera et al.ARTICLEWork Aging and Retirement2024References: 10

    We aimed to identify short and long-term trajectories of self-rated health (SRH) and physical working capacity during the retirement transition, and investigate whether work-related factors and social class predict belonging to these trajectories. We used the representative, biennial Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH) 2006–2018. We applied group-based trajectory modeling with B-spline smoothers to model trajectories of SRH…

  • Job Quality in the Late Career in Sweden, Japan and the United States

    Open AccessLoretta G Platts, Lawrence B Sacco et al.ARTICLEResearch on Aging2023

    Increasing numbers of older workers continue to work after being eligible to claim a state pension, yet little is known about the quality of these jobs. We examine how psychosocial and physical job quality as well as job satisfaction vary over the late career in three contrasting national settings: Sweden, Japan and the United States. Analyses using random effects modelling drew on data from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health …

  • Estimating Working Life Expectancy

    Open AccessHolendro Singh Chungkham, Robin S Högnäs et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2023

    Increases in retirement ages make it particularly pressing to better understand how long people will work. Working life expectancy (WLE) is a useful measure for this and the current paper assesses the tools, that is, software packages, available to assess it. We do this using data from the English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing (ELSA, 2003–2018) and multistate models to estimate WLE stratified by sex and socioeconomic status. Men’s versus women’s …

  • The nature of paid work in the retirement years

    Open AccessLoretta G Platts, Agnieszka Ignatowicz et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2023Cited by: 1References: 23

    Ever more people are in paid work following the age of state pension availability, and yet the experience of working in this phase of the late career has been little studied. We interviewed a purposive sample of 25 Swedish people in their mid- to late sixties and early seventies, many of whom were or had recently been working while claiming an old-age pension. The data were analysed with constant comparative analysis in which we described and ref…

  • The Implication of Physically Demanding and Hazardous Work on Retirement Timing

    Open AccessJohanna Stengård, Marianna Virtanen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The need to retain individuals longer in the workforce is acknowledged in many high-income countries. The present study therefore aimed to examine the importance of physically demanding work tasks (PDWT) and physically hazardous work environment (PHWE) in relation to retirement timing among pensionable workers (≥61 years). A particular question was whether PDWT and PHWE increased in importance with age. Six waves (2008-2018) of the Swedish Longit…

  • Distance to sports facilities and low frequency of exercise and obesity

    Open AccessAuriba Raza, Anna Pulakka et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Increased distance of paid outdoor and paid indoor physical activity facilities from home and of paid outdoor facilities from work was associated with low frequency of exercise. Longitudinal and larger studies are needed to confirm our findings, particularly regarding obesity

  • It's giving me the blues

    Open AccessRobin S Högnäs, Maarten J Bijlsma et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 2References: 71

  • Technostress operationalised as information and communication technology (ICT) demands among managers and other occupational groups – Results from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Healt…

    Open AccessMagdalena Stadin, Maria Nordin et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2021

  • Health- and Age-Related Workplace Factors as Predictors of Preferred, Expected, and Actual Retirement Timing

    Open AccessMarta Sousa-Ribeiro, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    To address the challenges of demographic aging, governments and organizations encourage extended working lives. This study investigates how individual health- and age-related workplace factors contribute to preferred, expected and actual retirement timing, as well as to the congruency between preferences vs. expectations, and preferences vs. actual retirement. We used data from a representative Swedish longitudinal sample comprising 4058 workers …

  • Does workplace social capital predict care quality through job satisfaction and stress at the clinic? A prospective study

    Open AccessHanne Berthelsen, Mikaela Owen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Workplace social capital boosted the quality of dental fillings through increased levels of job satisfaction. In addition, staff at clinics with higher social capital reported less stress and higher levels of job satisfaction. These results indicate that promotion of social capital may improve both occupational health and care quality

  • Changes in Job Quality as People Work Beyond Pensionable Age in Sweden

    Open AccessLawrence B Sacco, Kevin Cahill et al.ARTICLEWork Aging and Retirement2021Cited by: 1References: 16

    Large numbers of people remain in paid work after pensionable age, often in bridge jobs or with reduced working hours. Remarkably, knowledge about the quality of these jobs relative to those taken prior to pension eligibility is very limited. In this paper, we examined changes in job quality among workers in their sixties in the context of contemporaneous changes in work intensity and employment characteristics. This study is based on data from t…

  • Validation of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire Version III and Establishment of Benchmarks for Psychosocial Risk Management in Sweden

    Open AccessHanne Berthelsen, Hugo Westerlund et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This study presents the Swedish standard version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, COPSOQ III, and investigates its reliability and validity at individual and workplace levels with the aim of establishing benchmarks for the psychosocial work environment. Cross-sectional data from (1) a random sample of employees in Sweden aged 25-65 years (N = 2847) and (2) a convenience sample of non-managerial employees at 51 workplaces (N = 1818) w…

  • Benchmarks for Evidence-Based Risk Assessment with the Swedish Version of the 4-Item Psychosocial Safety Climate Scale

    Open AccessHanne Berthelsen, Tuija Muhonen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    The purpose of the present study was to validate the short version of The Psychosocial Safety Climate questionnaire (PSC-4, Dollard, 2019) and to establish benchmarks indicating risk levels for use in Sweden. Cross-sectional data from (1) a random sample of employees in Sweden aged 25-65 years ( n = 2847) and (2) a convenience sample of non-managerial employees from 94 workplaces ( n = 3066) were analyzed. Benchmarks for three PSC risk levels wer…

  • Labor market exit around retirement age in Sweden and trajectories of psychotropic drugs in a context of downsizing

    Open AccessSven Blomqvist, Hugo Westerlund et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Downsizing or workplace closure, although weakly, was associated with higher prevalence of psychotropic drugs certain years around the labor market exit. The results support the idea that involuntary labor market exit in mature adulthood may negatively affect the development of mental health

  • Informal Caregiving and Quality of Life Among Older Adults

    Open AccessLawrence B Sacco, Stefanie König et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2020Cited by: 3References: 10

    Providing unpaid informal care to someone who is ill or disabled is a common experience in later life. While a supportive and potentially rewarding role, informal care can become a time and emotionally demanding activity, which may hinder older adults’ quality of life. In a context of rising demand for informal carers, we investigated how caregiving states and transitions are linked to overall levels and changes in quality of life, and how the re…

  • Reduction in sleep disturbances at retirement

    Open AccessVera Van De Straat, Loretta G Platts et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2020References: 46

    Although retirement involves a radical change in daily activities, income, social roles and relationships, and the transition from paid work into retirement can, therefore, be expected to affect sleep, little is known about the effects of old-age retirement on changes in sleep disturbances, and how the impact of retirement may vary by gender, age and prior working conditions. This study modelled reported sleep disturbances up to nine years before…

  • Long working hours, anthropometry, lung function, blood pressure and blood-based biomarkers

    Marianna Virtanen, Linda L Magnusson Hanson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019Cited by: 1References: 30

    BACKGROUND: Although long working hours have been shown to be associated with the onset of cardiometabolic diseases, the clinical risk factor profile associated with long working hours remains unclear. We compared the clinical risk profile between people who worked long hours and those who reported being never exposed to long hours. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in 22 health screening centres in France was based on a random population-based sa…

  • Does Labor Market Position Explain the Differences in Self-Rated Health between Employed Immigrants and Native Swedes

    Open AccessMarina Taloyan, Hugo Westerlund et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2019Cited by: 1References: 21

    Many groups of immigrants have worse health than the native population in the host countries. One possible explanation for this is that immigrants are disadvantaged in the labor market, since it has been shown that both precarious and locked-in labor market position can be associated with health problems. However, no published study to date has analyzed the prevalence or consequences of locked-in labor market position among immigrants. The aim of…

  • Prevailing over Adversity

    Open AccessYlva B Almquist, Evelina Landstedt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Disadvantaged circumstances in youth tend to translate into poor health development. However, the fact that this is not always the case has been seen as indicative of differential resilience. The current study highlights factors outside the context of the family with the potential to counteract the long-term negative influences of social and material adversity in adolescence on general health status. This study was based on two waves of questionn…

  • The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market

    Open AccessCatarina Canivet, Gunnar Aronsson et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2017

    Precarious employment has been associated with poor mental health. Moreover, increasing labour market precariousness may cause individuals to feel 'locked-in', in non-desired workplaces or occupations, out of fear of not finding a new employment. This could be experienced as a 'loss of control', with similar negative health consequences. It is plausible that the extent to which being in a non-desired occupation (NDO) or being in precarious employ…

  • Interactional justice at work is related to sickness absence

    Open AccessConstanze Leineweber, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Our results underline the need for fair and just treatment of employees irrespective of perceived job insecurity in order to keep the workforce healthy and to minimize lost work days due to sickness absence