Lyndall Strazdins

Biographic Data

ID	123364
NAME	Lyndall Strazdins
GIVEN NAMES	Lyndall
FAMILY NAME	Strazdins
SIGNATURE	STRAZDINS L
AFFILIATIONS	Australian National University
ORCID	0000-0001-5158-6855
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	66
TOTAL CITATIONS	547
AUTHOR COUNT	66
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	14

Healthy finances but poor health: A qualitative study of Australian older white-collar workers
Open AccessChristine Labond, Cathy Banwell et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2026
Background As governments become more concerned about the costs of supporting an ageing population, some have adopted policy levers to incentivise mature labour force participation. Since 1 July 2023 Australia has increased the age at which government-provided pensions can be accessed from 65 to 67. Currently, some people work beyond 67 even though they can afford to retire, while others leave the workforce well before 67, often because of failin…
Ceilings: Gender Inequality in Hours, Earnings and Health
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Tinh Doan et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2026References: 10
One reason gender earning gaps persist is that well-paid jobs presume long work hours, and these are incompatible with family care. Long hours also harm health, and the risks may increase for workers with care and domestic workloads, adding a gendered health penalty. Using representative, longitudinal data from Australia and Germany (144,430–153,659 observations for HILDA and SOEP surveys, respectively, 2002–2022), we model the interconnections b…
The Economic Costs of Men's Long Work Hours for Women: Evidence on the Gender Wage Earnings Gap from Australia and Germany
Open AccessTinh Doan, Liana Leach et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2025Cited by: 2References: 38
Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. Using a two-stage instrumental variable Oaxaca-Blin…
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Open AccessTinh Doan, Cathy Banwell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2024Cited by: 1References: 19
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context
Open AccessTinh Doan, Liana Leach et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2024References: 31
Using nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25–64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. Our findings indicate that health selection into the labour market occurs not only due to individual's own hea…
Health and occupation: The limits to older adults' work hours
Open AccessTinh Doan, Christine Labond et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2024References: 46
More people are working into older age, raising questions about how many hours they can work before their health becomes compromised. This paper models work-hour tipping points for mental health and vitality among older Australian workers aged 50–70 years. We use longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, 2005–2016 (about 44,900 observations), and bootstrapping Three Stage Least Squares (3SLS) es…
What are the potential impacts of work-study conflict for adolescents' mental health? Findings from a national Australian cohort study
Tianying Wang, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2024Cited by: 1References: 40
Around half of all Australian adolescents combine their final years of secondary education with a part-time job and this may be creating pressure that impacts their mental health. However, there is virtually no national population-based research investigating how work-study conflicts for young people might adversely affect mental health. This study used data from Wave 7 of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), including 996 adoles…
Healthy minds live in healthy bodies – effect of physical health on mental health: Evidence from Australian longitudinal data
Open AccessTinh Doan, Van Ha et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023
It is well known that physical and mental health are closely related, with growing evidence for biological and behavioural pathways. Mostly the research has focussed on mental health as the key driver of this inter-connection; the extent physical health shapes mental health has received less attention. We aim to derive robust estimates of the unique role physical health may play in shaping mental health outcomes. To do so we use a novel approach,…
Working longer hours and body weight: An Australian study using household panel data (with measures of paid and unpaid time) to provide gender-specific estimates
Open AccessLiana Leach, Therese Doan et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023
Time is a resource for health, and when time is constrained, people have less opportunity to maintain good health. This study focuses on the relationship between paid work hours (with a focus on long hours) and body weight for Australian men and women. Time is conceptualised as a 24-hour system, including time in paid work, time in unpaid work, and discretionary time (available for health promoting activities). We propose that to accurately estim…
Work intensity and workers’ sleep: A case of working Australians
Open AccessSai Lyons, Lyndall Strazdins et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022
Experiencing poor sleep quality affects an individual’s health and wellbeing. Sleep quality is well evidenced to be influenced by work conditions such as long work hours, work stress and shift work, but there is little evidence on the relationship between high work intensity and sleep quality. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey waves 2013 and 2017, this study applies lagged models to investigate …
Unencumbered and still unequal? Work hour - Health tipping points and gender inequality among older, employed Australian couples
Open AccessTinh Doan, Christine Labond et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022
Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women's time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what happens to their mental health, vitality and wealth. We used a representative household-based panel o…
Reciprocal relationships between time pressure and mental or physical health in Australian mothers of preschool aged children
Open AccessBelinda Hewitt, Mara Yerkes et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 1References: 58
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered
Open AccessTinh Doan, Peng Yu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2022Cited by: 2References: 53
We investigate time inequity as an explanatory mechanism for gendered physical activity disparity. Our mixed-effect generalized linear model with two-stage residual inclusion framework uses longitudinal data, capturing differing exchanges and trade-offs in time resources. The first stage estimates within-household exchanges of paid and family work hours. Estimates show that men's employment increases women's family work hours while reducing their…
How to Fit In? Acculturation and Risk of Overweight and Obesity. Experiences of Australian Immigrant Mothers From South Asia and Their 8- to 11-Year-Old Children
Open AccessTehzeeb Zulfiqar, Lyndall Strazdins et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2021
This study of 14 Australian immigrant mothers from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan and their 12 children aged 8 to 11 years aims to explore the interplay of cultural and social processes that might elevate the risk of obesity. Mothers and their children were asked in semi-structured, face-to-face interviews about changes in their diet and physical activities after immigration to Australia. Thematic analysis of these interviews showed a transforma…
How does working nonstandard hours impact psychological resources important for parental functioning? Evidence from an Australian longitudinal cohort study
Open AccessYixuan Zhao, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021
This study investigates the link between nonstandard schedules and three psychological resources salient to working parents' parental functioning (psychological distress, work-family conflict and relationship quality). Data from fathers and mothers are analysed separately, using a nationally representative sample of dual-earner parents (6190 observations from 1915 couples) drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). The LSAC …
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study
Open AccessGinny M Sargent, Ginny Sargent et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2021Cited by: 4References: 45
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 12 Australian workers, the study ex…
Parents' Shift Work in Connection with Work-Family Conflict and Mental Health: Examining the Pathways for Mothers and Fathers
Open AccessYixuan Zhao, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2021Cited by: 4References: 55
Shift work might aggravate work-family conflict and mental health. The current study used moderated-mediation analyses to investigate the association between shift work and mental health, whether work-family conflict explained this association, and whether the pathways differed between genders. The sample included 756 mothers and 452 fathers participating in the 'Families at Work' survey, an online nationwide community-based survey of employed pa…
Does flexible work 'work' in Australia? A survey of employed mothers' and fathers' work, family and health
Stacey Hokke, Shannon K Bennett et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2021Cited by: 1References: 53
Workplace flexibility is perceived to benefit parents yet evidence of \nthe effectiveness of formal work arrangements in promoting \nparents’ health is mixed, and few have evaluated informal \nflexibility. This study investigates Australian mothers’ and fathers’ \nuse of formal (employer-provided) and informal (self-directed) \nwork arrangements and associations with work-family conflict and \nhealth outcomes (psychological distress, occupational…
What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
Open AccessTinh Doan, Peter Thorning et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2021Cited by: 9References: 33
How can multiple frames enable action on social determinants? Lessons from Australia’s paid parental leave
Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2020
How do public health advocates and practitioners encourage policy actors to address the social determinants of health? What strategies can be used to elevate healthy social policies onto government agendas? In this paper, we examine the case of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, announced in 2009 after decades of policy advocacy. This scheme provides job-protected leave and government-funded pay at the minimum wage for 18 week…
Blue collar timescapes: Work, health, and pension eligibility age for mature age Australian bus drivers
Open AccessChristine Labond, Cathy Banwell et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2020
Assumptions about time, value, labour, and health coalesce in the policy decision to extend the pension eligibility age in Australia from 65 to 67 years. Acknowledging the multiple, often incompatible ways in which time is conceptualised and experienced, we question the expectation of extending Australians’ working lives. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 19 male and female bus drivers over the age of 55 in Australia, we illustrate that …
Is Self-Employment a Good Option? Gender, Parents and the Work-Family Interface
Open AccessHuong Dinh, Angela Martins et al.ARTICLESex Roles2020Cited by: 2References: 18
Bringing in critical frameworks to investigate agenda-setting for the social determinants of health: Lessons from a multiple framework analysis
Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 2References: 21
Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: Longitudinal evidence from Germany
Jianghong Li, Till Kaiser et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019Cited by: 1References: 25
BACKGROUND: Most existing studies on maternal employment and childhood overweight/obesity are from the USA. They are predominantly cross-sectional and show a consistent linear association between the two. Less is known about the joint impact of fathers' and mothers' work hours on childhood overweight and obesity. OBJECTIVES: To examine the impact of maternal and paternal work hours on overweight/obesity among children aged 1-6 years in Germany us…
Drivers of Overweight/Obesity in 4–11 Year Old Children of Australians and Immigrants; Evidence from Growing Up in Australia
Open AccessTehzeeb Zulfiqar, Lyndall Strazdins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2018

The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: An analysis of a sample of Australian government employees
Open AccessRuth A Parslow, Ruth Parslow et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2004
Measures of work stress and not employee level affect the mental health and well-being of government employees. For governments with responsibility for funding health care services, reducing work stress experienced by their own employees offers potential benefits by improving the health of their workforce and reducing outlays for such services
Women, work and musculoskeletal health
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Gabriele BammerARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2004Cited by: 16References: 28
Around-the-clock: Parent Work Schedules and Children's Well-Being in a 24-H Economy
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Rosemary J Korda et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2004Cited by: 49References: 24
Acts of Love (and Work): Gender Imbalance in Emotional Work and Women’s Psychological Distress
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Dorothy H BroomARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2004Cited by: 34References: 35
Family members do work to meet people's emotional needs, improve their well-being, and maintain harmony. When emotional work is shared equally, both men and women have access to emotional resources in the family. However, like housework and child care, the distribution of emotional work is gendered. This study examines the psychological health consequences of gender divisions in emotional work. Quantitative and qualitative data from a sample of 1…
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Open AccessDorothy H Broom, Rennie M D’souza et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 34References: 28
Unsociable Work? Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Relationships, and Children's Well-Being
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Mari Clements et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2006Cited by: 75References: 44
Many children live in families where one or both parents work evenings, nights, or weekends. Do these work schedules affect family relationships or well-being? Using cross-sectional survey data from dual-earner Canadian families (N= 4,306) with children aged 2 - 11 years (N= 6,156), we compared families where parents worked standard weekday times with those where parents worked nonstandard schedules. Parents working nonstandard schedules reported…
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
Open AccessLiana Leach, Liana S Leach et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Job quality and inequality: Parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Megan Shipley et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Cited by: 22References: 40
The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: Results from a longitudinal national household panel survey
Peter Butterworth, Liana Leach et al.ARTICLEOccupational and Environmental…2011
OBJECTIVES: Although employment is associated with health benefits over unemployment, the psychosocial characteristics of work also influence health. We used longitudinal data to investigate whether the benefits of having a job depend on its psychosocial quality (levels of control, demands and complexity, job insecurity, and unfair pay), and whether poor quality jobs are associated with better mental health than unemployment. METHOD: Analysis of …
Time limits? Reflecting and responding to time barriers for healthy, active living in Australia
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Dorothy H Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2011
Lack of time is the main reason people say they do not exercise or use public transport, so addressing time barriers is essential to achieving health promotion goals. Our aim was to investigate how time barriers are viewed by the people who develop programs to increase physical activity or use active transport. We studied five interventions and explored the interplay between views and strategies. Some views emphasized personal choice and attitude…
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
Lyndall Strazdins, Rennie M D'Souza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011Cited by: 10References: 32
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
Time Scarcity: Another Health Inequality
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Amy L Griffin et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2011Cited by: 27References: 69
Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores …
How parents' income, time and job quality affect children's health and development
Open AccessJan M Nicholson, Lyndall Strazdins et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2012Cited by: 2References: 41
The advent of the Global Financial Crisis reminds us that modern epidemiological research has consistently demonstrated links between the socio‐economic circumstances of families and children's health and development. Drawing on data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, this article firstly examines the evidence for intergenerational transmission of socio‐economic disadvantage from parents to young children. It then examines parent…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Open AccessJane Dixon, Dan Woodman et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2013
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Combining work and family: Rewards or risks for children's mental health
Open AccessLyndall Strazdins, Léan V Obrien et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2013Cited by: 21References: 37
Mothers' and Fathers' Work Hours, Child Gender, and Behavior in Middle Childhood
Open AccessSarah Johnson, Sarah E Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2013Cited by: 13References: 49
This study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual families. Child behavior was measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) at ages 5, 8, and 10 in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study (N = 4,201 child-year observations). Compared to those whose fathers worked fewer hours per week, children whose fathers worked 55 hours or …
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Open AccessBina Gubhaju, Blake Rodgers et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2013Cited by: 5References: 5
Parents’ Nonstandard Work Schedules and Child Well-Being: A Critical Review of the Literature
Open AccessJianghong Li, Sarah E Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Primary Prevention2014
Contemporary contestations over working time: Time for health to weigh in
Open AccessJane Dixon, George Carey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014
The study posits that time is a key mechanism through which particular forms of labour market policies impact health. The labour market flexibility agenda appears to be operating as a time re-distributive device: it has supported the removal of regulations that governed 'the when' of working time and removed limits over the amount of working time, thus extending by many hours the notion of the 'standard' working week and forcing employees to adap…
Heightened Maternal Separation Anxiety in the Postpartum: The Role of Socioeconomic Disadvantage
Open AccessAmanda Cooklin, Amanda R Cooklin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2014Cited by: 1References: 38
Maternal separation anxiety (MSA) refers to feelings of anxiety elicited in a mother during separation from her infant. The role of social and structural disadvantage in the etiology of high MSA has been overlooked. Secondary analysis of data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children ( N = 3,897) revealed that compared to socioeconomically advantaged women, women of low socioeconomic position had a fourfold increased odds of reporting hi…
Physically and psychologically hazardous jobs and mental health in Thailand
Open AccessVasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Lyndall Strazdins et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2015
This paper investigates associations between hazardous jobs, mental health and wellbeing among Thai adults. In 2005, 87 134 distance-learning students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University completed a self-administered questionnaire; at the 2009 follow-up 60 569 again participated. Job characteristics were reported in 2005, psychological distress and life satisfaction were reported in both 2005 and 2009. We derived two composite variables g…
Integrating paid work and chronic illness in daily life: A space-time approach to understanding the challenges
Open AccessJulia Mcquoid, Jennifer Welsh et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2015Cited by: 10References: 16
Consistency and Continuity in Material and Psychosocial Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Open AccessBina Gubhaju, Blake Rodgers et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2015References: 3
What matters for working fathers? Job characteristics, work-family conflict and enrichment, and fathers' postpartum mental health in an Australian cohort
Open AccessAmanda Cooklin, Amanda R Cooklin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Cited by: 19References: 64
Time and participation in workplace health promotion: Australian qualitative study
Open AccessGinny M Sargent, Ginny Sargent et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2016
Workplaces are considered promising settings for protecting and promoting the health and wellbeing of employees. To date, few workplaces, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SME), or their workers, have adopted Workplace Health Promotion (WHP), raising questions as to why. We conducted interviews in 10 SME in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) asking managers and workers to reflect on the reasons for their participation (or not) …