Gunnar Aronsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 196665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar Aronsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Aronsson |
| SIGNATURE | ARONSSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3664-1814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Favorable Working Conditions Related to Health Behavior Among Nurses and Care Assistants in Sweden—A Population-Based Cohort Study
Objective: To analyze the associations between favorable physical and psychosocial work factors and health behavior among healthcare employees (nurses and care assistants) with health complaints. Methods: The study was based on seven iterations (2001–2013) of a biennial Swedish work environment survey linked with data from public registers. In all, 7,180 healthcare employees, aged 16–64 years, who had reported health complaints, were included. He…
The changing nature of work – Job strain, job support and sickness absence among care workers and in other occupations in Sweden 1991–2013
This study examined exposure changes in three psychosocial dimensions - job demands, job control, and social support - and the associations between these dimensions and sickness absence throughout the period 1991-2013. The analyses covered periods of economic ups and downs in Sweden and periods involving major fluctuations in sickness absence. Data on care workers (n = 16,179) and a comparison group of employees in other occupations (n = 82,070) …
A Resourceful Work Environment Moderates the Relationship between Presenteeism and Health. A Study Using Repeated Measures in the Swedish Working Population
The objective of this study was to investigate if the psychosocial work environment moderates the proposed negative impact of presenteeism on future general health. We expect that the negative impact of presenteeism on general health is weaker if the psychosocial work environment is resourceful, and more pronounced if the environment is stressful. Data were derived from the 2008-2018 biennial waves of the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey …
Interaction Effects of Physical and Psychosocial Working Conditions on Risk for Sickness Absence
Employees in health and social care are often simultaneously exposed to both physical and psychosocial challenges that may increase their risk for sickness absence. The study examines interaction effects of physical and psychosocial work conditions on the future risk for sickness absence among nurses and care assistants in Sweden. The study was based on 14,372 participants in any of the Swedish Work Environment Surveys conducted during the years …
Does Labor Market Position Explain the Differences in Self-Rated Health between Employed Immigrants and Native Swedes
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…
A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and burnout symptoms
The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market
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…
A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and depressive symptoms
Previous sickness presence among long‐term sick‐listed in N orway and S weden
The aim of the present study was to analyse previous sickness presence among long‐term sick‐listed individuals in N orway and S weden and the reasons given for sickness presence. The study was based on survey data for 3,312 persons in N orway and S weden who had been sick‐listed for at least 30 days. Two questions were used. One measured prevalence: During the last 12 months prior to your current sick leave, did you go to work even when feeling s…
Work Conditions, Recovery and Health
The study investigated the working conditions associated with the accumulation of stress and lack of recovery and how recovery is related to health. The study group was employed in pre-school, home care and social work (n = 193). Recovery was assumed to be an explanatory variable for the relations between work and health. The response rate on a survey was 79 per cent. Cluster analysis identified three groups: the ‘Recovered’ (36 per cent of the t…
Sickness Presenteeism
OBJECTIVE: Sickness presence, that is, going to work despite judging one's current state of health as such that sick leave should be taken, was investigated in relation to different work and background factors. METHODS: The study group comprised a random sample of 3136 persons who responded to a questionnaire administered in conjunction with Statistics Sweden's labor market survey. Logistic regressions were used in the analyses. RESULTS: Fifty-th…
Sick but yet at work. An empirical study of sickness presenteeism
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down organisation. DESIGN: Cross sectional design. SETTING: Swedish workforce. PARTICIPANTS: The study group comprised a stratified subsample of 3801 employed persons working at the time of the survey, interviewed by telephone in conjunction with Statistics Sw…
Contingent Workers and Health and Safety
This paper investigates the association between opportunities to take part in work-environment dialogue and peripheral labour market position, which was operationalised in terms of short-term employment. A stratified representative sample from Statistics Sweden's Labour Market Survey – with 50 per cent of persons on short-term, and 50 per cent on a long-term contracts – is analysed (n=1,564). More contingent workers than permanent employees repor…
Stress reactions in computerized administrative work
Ninety‐five white‐collar workers employed by an insurance company using visual display units (VDU) connected by telecommunication to a central computer filled in a questionnaire concerning psychosocial stressors in connection with work at the VDU. Eleven persons with extensive and ten with no work at VDUs were also studied during regular work, during breakdown of machinery, and in their leisure time. Self‐reports on mood and alertness were record…
Sick but yet at work. An empirical study of sickness presenteeism
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down organisation. DESIGN: Cross sectional design. SETTING: Swedish workforce. PARTICIPANTS: The study group comprised a stratified subsample of 3801 employed persons working at the time of the survey, interviewed by telephone in conjunction with Statistics Sw…
Contingent Workers and Health and Safety
This paper investigates the association between opportunities to take part in work-environment dialogue and peripheral labour market position, which was operationalised in terms of short-term employment. A stratified representative sample from Statistics Sweden's Labour Market Survey – with 50 per cent of persons on short-term, and 50 per cent on a long-term contracts – is analysed (n=1,564). More contingent workers than permanent employees repor…
Work Conditions, Recovery and Health
The study investigated the working conditions associated with the accumulation of stress and lack of recovery and how recovery is related to health. The study group was employed in pre-school, home care and social work (n = 193). Recovery was assumed to be an explanatory variable for the relations between work and health. The response rate on a survey was 79 per cent. Cluster analysis identified three groups: the ‘Recovered’ (36 per cent of the t…
Stress reactions in computerized administrative work
Ninety‐five white‐collar workers employed by an insurance company using visual display units (VDU) connected by telecommunication to a central computer filled in a questionnaire concerning psychosocial stressors in connection with work at the VDU. Eleven persons with extensive and ten with no work at VDUs were also studied during regular work, during breakdown of machinery, and in their leisure time. Self‐reports on mood and alertness were record…
Does Labor Market Position Explain the Differences in Self-Rated Health between Employed Immigrants and Native Swedes
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…
Stress reactions in computerized administrative work
Ninety‐five white‐collar workers employed by an insurance company using visual display units (VDU) connected by telecommunication to a central computer filled in a questionnaire concerning psychosocial stressors in connection with work at the VDU. Eleven persons with extensive and ten with no work at VDUs were also studied during regular work, during breakdown of machinery, and in their leisure time. Self‐reports on mood and alertness were record…
Contingent Workers and Health and Safety
This paper investigates the association between opportunities to take part in work-environment dialogue and peripheral labour market position, which was operationalised in terms of short-term employment. A stratified representative sample from Statistics Sweden's Labour Market Survey – with 50 per cent of persons on short-term, and 50 per cent on a long-term contracts – is analysed (n=1,564). More contingent workers than permanent employees repor…
Sick but yet at work. An empirical study of sickness presenteeism
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down organisation. DESIGN: Cross sectional design. SETTING: Swedish workforce. PARTICIPANTS: The study group comprised a stratified subsample of 3801 employed persons working at the time of the survey, interviewed by telephone in conjunction with Statistics Sw…
Sickness Presenteeism
OBJECTIVE: Sickness presence, that is, going to work despite judging one's current state of health as such that sick leave should be taken, was investigated in relation to different work and background factors. METHODS: The study group comprised a random sample of 3136 persons who responded to a questionnaire administered in conjunction with Statistics Sweden's labor market survey. Logistic regressions were used in the analyses. RESULTS: Fifty-th…
Previous sickness presence among long‐term sick‐listed in N orway and S weden
The aim of the present study was to analyse previous sickness presence among long‐term sick‐listed individuals in N orway and S weden and the reasons given for sickness presence. The study was based on survey data for 3,312 persons in N orway and S weden who had been sick‐listed for at least 30 days. Two questions were used. One measured prevalence: During the last 12 months prior to your current sick leave, did you go to work even when feeling s…
Work Conditions, Recovery and Health
The study investigated the working conditions associated with the accumulation of stress and lack of recovery and how recovery is related to health. The study group was employed in pre-school, home care and social work (n = 193). Recovery was assumed to be an explanatory variable for the relations between work and health. The response rate on a survey was 79 per cent. Cluster analysis identified three groups: the ‘Recovered’ (36 per cent of the t…
A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and depressive symptoms
A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and burnout symptoms
The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market
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…
Does Labor Market Position Explain the Differences in Self-Rated Health between Employed Immigrants and Native Swedes
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…
A Resourceful Work Environment Moderates the Relationship between Presenteeism and Health. A Study Using Repeated Measures in the Swedish Working Population
The objective of this study was to investigate if the psychosocial work environment moderates the proposed negative impact of presenteeism on future general health. We expect that the negative impact of presenteeism on general health is weaker if the psychosocial work environment is resourceful, and more pronounced if the environment is stressful. Data were derived from the 2008-2018 biennial waves of the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey …
Interaction Effects of Physical and Psychosocial Working Conditions on Risk for Sickness Absence
Employees in health and social care are often simultaneously exposed to both physical and psychosocial challenges that may increase their risk for sickness absence. The study examines interaction effects of physical and psychosocial work conditions on the future risk for sickness absence among nurses and care assistants in Sweden. The study was based on 14,372 participants in any of the Swedish Work Environment Surveys conducted during the years …
Favorable Working Conditions Related to Health Behavior Among Nurses and Care Assistants in Sweden—A Population-Based Cohort Study
Objective: To analyze the associations between favorable physical and psychosocial work factors and health behavior among healthcare employees (nurses and care assistants) with health complaints. Methods: The study was based on seven iterations (2001–2013) of a biennial Swedish work environment survey linked with data from public registers. In all, 7,180 healthcare employees, aged 16–64 years, who had reported health complaints, were included. He…
The changing nature of work – Job strain, job support and sickness absence among care workers and in other occupations in Sweden 1991–2013
This study examined exposure changes in three psychosocial dimensions - job demands, job control, and social support - and the associations between these dimensions and sickness absence throughout the period 1991-2013. The analyses covered periods of economic ups and downs in Sweden and periods involving major fluctuations in sickness absence. Data on care workers (n = 16,179) and a comparison group of employees in other occupations (n = 82,070) …
Medicine (11 works) · Workplace Health and Well-being (11 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Physical therapy (6 works) · Absenteeism (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)