J Siegrist
Biographic Data
| ID | 295032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Siegrist |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegrist |
| SIGNATURE | SIEGRIST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7530-4178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 607 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Occupational health education and training as a sustainable development goal
Work stress and perceived memory: Longitudinal insights from the job demand-control and effort-reward imbalance models
Two psychosocial work models, job demand-control (JDC) and effort-reward imbalance (ERI), have been studied in relation to health and cognition, but to a limited extent with subjective memory. This study aimed to evaluate longitudinal associations of JDC and ERI with changes in subjective memory among United States (U.S.) workers from the population-based Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study. Among 1,538 U.S. workers, generalised estimating…
Failed reciprocity in core social roles and cardiovascular disease mortality: Prospective results from the U.S. health and retirement study
Failed reciprocity in core social roles of adult life is associated with increased CVD mortality risk in this study of older employed persons in the U.S
Work stress and changes in heart rate variability among employees after first acute coronary syndrome: A hospital-based longitudinal cohort study
Background Work stress is considered as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, but its link with heart rate variability (HRV) among heart attack survivors is unknown yet. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between baseline work stress and the changes of HRV over one-year after onset of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods Hundred and twenty-two patients with regular paid work before their first ACS episode were recruited i…
Unfairness and Stress—An Examination of Two Alternative Models: Organizational-Justice and Effort–Reward Imbalance
An extensive empirical research has found that unfairness at work can have deleterious effects on employees’ work outcomes. Our study seeks to advance this perspective by using two alternative approaches of unfairness at work–organizational (in)justice (OJ) and effort–reward imbalance (ERI) and its consequences on two separate samples of employees. A total of 583 Pakistani and 241 French employees participated in two samples, which provided cross…
Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: Associations over the working life
BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from the French CONSTANCES cohort, with information on adverse employment histories between ages 25 and 45 and a composite score of AL (based on 10 biomark…
Effort–Reward Imbalance at Work and Drug Misuse: Evidence from a National Survey in the U.S
With the rise of drug misuse among workers in recent years, preliminary research on potential risk factors in the workplace of single-type of drug misuse has been reported. This is the first study to examine cross-sectional associations of work stress, in terms of effort-reward imbalance, with multiple drug misuse (including any drug misuse, opioid misuse, sedatives misuse, cannabis misuse, and other drug misuse) during the past 12 months in a na…
Associations between change in labour market policies and work stressors: A comparative longitudinal survey data analysis from 27 European countries
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article
Intragenerational Social Mobility and Depressive Symptoms. Results From the French Constances Cohort Study
Our findings underline the importance of integrating data into analysis on starting and ending points of social mobility processes within entire histories of labor market participation
Productive activities, mental health and quality of life in disability: Exploring the role enhancement and the role strain hypotheses
Engagement in productive activities is an important determinant of mental health and quality of life (QoL). Persons with physical disabilities are often confronted with constraints to engage in productive activities and it remains largely unknown whether persons who nevertheless manage to be productive experience beneficial effects for mental health and QoL. This is the first study to analyse different productive activities (paid work, volunteeri…
Effort-Reward Imbalance, Over-Commitment and Depressive Episodes at Work: Evidence from the Elsa-Brasil Cohort Study
A growing burden of mental illness, and in particular depression, among workers is a concern of occupational public health. Scientific evidence has revealed consistent associations of work-related stress, as measured by theoretical models, with depression, but mostly so in developed countries. This contribution explores these associations in a developing Latin American country, Brazil, by applying an internationally established work stress model,…
The Role of Leisure-Time Physical Activity in the Change of Work-Related Stress (ERI) over Time
The long-term moderating effect of LTPA on ERI is in agreement with former investigations on the role of LTPA on work-related stress, generally, and on its cross-sectional effect on ERI-stress, specifically. Some of Hill's criteria of a causal association in epidemiology (biological gradient, temporality, consistency) support our findings. As LTPA has also been shown to exert a protective effect on health outcomes that are associated with ERI, th…
Social inequalities in the burden of care: A dyadic analysis in the caregiving partners of persons with a physical disability
Our study, in the context of SCI, provides support for the contextual role of SEP in the Stress Process Model of caregiving. To reduce subjective caregiver burden, policy programs may target the strengthening of psychosocial resources, or the improvement of access to support services for caregivers with low SEP
Effort–reward imbalance and long-term benzodiazepine use: Longitudinal Findings From the Constances Cohort
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between effort-reward imbalance and incident long-term benzodiazepine use (LTBU). METHODS: We included 31 077 employed participants enrolled in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort between 2012 and 2014 who had not undergone LTBU in the 2 years before enrolment. LTBU was examined using drug reimbursement administrative databases. The effort-reward imbalance was calculated in quartiles. We computed O…
Toward Screening for High-Risk Benzodiazepine Users in Working Populations
AffiliationsJohannes Siegrist is with the Center for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Social relationships, mental health and wellbeing in physical disability: A systematic review
Do Effort and Reward at Work Predict Changes in Cognitive Function? First Longitudinal Results from the Representative German Socio-Economic Panel
It has been suggested that work characteristics, such as mental demands, job control, and occupational complexity, are prospectively related to cognitive function. However, current evidence on links between psychosocial working conditions and cognitive change over time is inconsistent. In this study, we applied the effort-reward imbalance model that allows to build on previous research on mental demands and to introduce reward-based learning as a…
Accumulation of disadvantage over the life course and mortality
Social inequalities in morbidity and mortality continue to be one of the highest public health concerns in times of increasing income inequalities in economically advanced countries. Compelling scientific evidence supports the notion that adverse socioeconomic circumstances determine poor health. To a large extent, respective epidemiological research is based on established indicators of people's socioeconomic position, such as education, occupat…
Stress at Work
Justice and Health
Health Care Markets: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Stress and Work
While stress is a popular concept in everyday life that describes a feeling of pressure resulting from overload, it is also a scientific term of growing importance. In a scientific perspective, stress differs from the everyday notion in at least two important ways. First, stress defines a reaction to a challenge (stressor) from the external world or from within the organism that interrupts or threatens the usual behavior and normal functioning of…
Linking Quality of Work in Midlife to Volunteering During Retirement: A European Study
There is increasing recognition that disadvantaged work and employment conditions over the life course, including psychosocial stress at work, have negative long-term effects on health at older ages. Yet, the question whether stress at work additionally influences the likelihood of participating in voluntary work during retirement still needs to be explored. This paper studies long-term influences of stressful work during adulthood (as defined by…
Occupational position, work stress and depressive symptoms: A pathway analysis of longitudinal SHARE data
BACKGROUND: Several studies tested whether stressful work mediates the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and health. Although providing moderate support, evidence is still inconclusive, partly due to a lack of theory-based measures of SEP and work stress, and because of methodological limitations. This contribution aims at overcoming these limitations. METHODS: We conduct pathway analysis and investigate indirect effects of SEP on …
Effort-Reward Imbalance at School and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Family Socioeconomic Status
Depression is a major mental health problem during adolescence. This study, using a sample of Chinese adolescents, examined the separate and combined effects of perceived school-related stress and of family socioeconomic status (SES) on the prevalence of depressive symptoms. A total of 1774 Chinese students from Grades 7-12 were recruited into our questionnaire survey. School-related stress was measured by the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnair…
The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons
Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings
Two alternative job stress models and the risk of coronary heart disease
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between two alternative job stress models-the effort-reward imbalance model and the job strain model-and the risk of coronary heart disease among male and female British civil servants. METHODS: The logistic regression analyses were based on a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II study) comprising 6895 men and 3413 women aged 35 to 55 years. Baseline measures of both job stress models were related…
Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: A comparative cross-sectional study
Place, social exchange and health: Proposed Sociological Framework
Low status control, high effort at work and ischemic heart disease: Prospective evidence from blue-collar men
Psychosocial work characteristics and self rated health in four post-communist countries
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine whether psychosocial factors at work are related to self rated health in post-communist countries. DESIGN AND SETTINGS: Random samples of men and women in five communities in four countries were sent a postal questionnaire (Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania) or were invited to an interview (Hungary). Working subjects (n=3941) reported their self rated health in the past 12 months (5 point scale), their socioeconomi…
Effort-reward imbalance model and self-reported health: Cross-sectional and prospective findings from the Gazel cohort
Socio-economic position and quality of life among older people in 10 European countries: Results of the SHARE study
This study examines associations between quality of life and multiple indicators of socio-economic position among people aged 50 or more years in 10 European countries, and analyses whether the relative importance of the socio-economic measures vary by age. The data are from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 2004. 15,080 cases were analysed. Quality of life was measured by a short version of the CASP-19 questionnair…
Chronic work stress, sickness absence, and hypertension in middle managers: General or specific sociological explanations
High effort, low reward, and cardiovascular risk factors in employed Swedish men and women: Baseline results from the Wolf Study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between measures of work stress (that is, the combination of high effort and low reward) and cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN: Cross sectional first screening of a prospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The study was conducted among 5720 healthy employed men and women living in the greater Stockholm area aged 19-70 years. All analyses were restricted to subjects with complete data (n = 4958…
Social Productivity and Well-being of Older People: A Sociological Exploration
Psychosocial work environment and myocardial infarction: Improving risk estimation by combining two complementary job stress models in the SHEEP Study
Objectives: Associations between two alternative formulations of job stress derived from the effort-reward imbalance and the job strain model and first non-fatal acute myocardial infarction were studied. Whereas the job strain model concentrates on situational (extrinsic) characteristics the effort-reward imbalance model analyses distinct person (intrinsic) characteristics in addition to situational ones. In view of these conceptual differences t…
Social Position, Work Stress, and Retirement Intentions: A Study with Older Employees from 11 European Countries
Using data from 11 European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we explore associations between social position and retirement intentions in elder employees. Social position is defined in terms of three complementary measures of occupational position: occupational class, occupational status, and occupational skill level. Additionally, we study to what extent psychosocial stress at work, as measured by the …
Participation in socially productive activities and quality of life in early old age: Findings from SHARE
In order to understand variations of quality of life in early old age, associations between socio-economic status, socially productive activities and well-being are studied across 14 European countries. Information on three different types of productive activities and their exchange characteristics is included. We used the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) including some 15,000 retired men and women.…
Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment
Welfare regimes, labour policies and unhealthy psychosocial working conditions: A comparative study with 9917 older employees from 12 European countries
BACKGROUND: Recent analyses explored associations of welfare state regimes with population health, with particular interest in differences between social protection-oriented versus more liberal regimes. Little is known about such associations with work-related health. The aims of this contribution are (1) to study variations of quality of work according to type of welfare regime and (2) to analyse differences in the size of effects of quality of …
Is the effect of work stress on cardiovascular mortality confounded by socioeconomic factors in the Valmet study
Epigenetic regulators and transcription factors establish distinct regulatory networks for gene regulation to maintain the embryonic stem cells (ESC) state. Although much has been learned regarding individual epigenetic regulators, their combinatorial functions remain elusive. Here, we report combinatorial functions of histone demethylases (HDMs) in gene regulation of mouse ESCs that are currently unknown. We generated a histone demethylome (HDMo…
Work stress of primary care physicians in the US, UK and German health care systems
Work stress and health in Western European and post-communist countries: An East–West comparison study
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that psychosocial factors at work influence the risk of poor health in Western societies, but little is known about the effect of work stress in the former communist countries. The aim of this paper is to compare the association of work stress with self-rated health in Western European and post-communist countries. METHODS: Data from four epidemiological studies were used: the HAPIEE study (Poland, Russia and the Cze…
Unfair exchange and health: Social bases of stress-related diseases
When does work stress hurt? Testing the interaction with socioeconomic position in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study systematically the separate and combined effects of work stress and socioeconomic position on three measures of health in an unselected working population. DESIGN: Two exposures (high demand/low control ("job strain"); effort-reward imbalance at work) are related to angina pectoris, depression, and poor self-rated health in a cross-sectional study design in which socioeconomic position was measured by occupational positi…
Housing and health in Germany
Study objectives: To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. Design: Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. Setting: Population based sample in Germany. Participants…
The social context of active distress in patients with early myocardial infarction
Long-term Effects of Psychosocial Work Stress in Midlife on Health Functioning After Labor Market Exit--Results From the Gazel Study
Findings underline the importance of working conditions in midlife not only for health in midlife but also for health functioning after labor market exit
Erfahrungsstruktur und Konflikt bei stationären Patienten / Patterns of Experience and Conflict of Hospitalized Patients: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenssoziologie im medizinischen Bereich
It is still the prevailing view that the patient in the hospital shows a tendency towards regressive and infantile reactions. The author - using a sociology of knowledge approach - attempts to demonstrate that there exist however multiple differentiated patterns of awareness and behavior caused by the cognitive disorganization of the hospitalized individual: increased loss of self-control, heightened sensitivity, need for relevant informations, a…
Greasing the wheels: Conflicts on the round and how they are managed
Interpersonal repression as a predictor of cancer
The social context of active distress in patients with early myocardial infarction
Conceptual and methodological problems in research on the quality of life in clinical medicine
Low status control, high effort at work and ischemic heart disease: Prospective evidence from blue-collar men
Sense of coherence and sociology of emotions
Social differentials in chronic disease: What can sociological knowledge offer to explain and possibly reduce them
Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions.
Chronic work stress, sickness absence, and hypertension in middle managers: General or specific sociological explanations
High effort, low reward, and cardiovascular risk factors in employed Swedish men and women: Baseline results from the Wolf Study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between measures of work stress (that is, the combination of high effort and low reward) and cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN: Cross sectional first screening of a prospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The study was conducted among 5720 healthy employed men and women living in the greater Stockholm area aged 19-70 years. All analyses were restricted to subjects with complete data (n = 4958…
Two alternative job stress models and the risk of coronary heart disease
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between two alternative job stress models-the effort-reward imbalance model and the job strain model-and the risk of coronary heart disease among male and female British civil servants. METHODS: The logistic regression analyses were based on a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II study) comprising 6895 men and 3413 women aged 35 to 55 years. Baseline measures of both job stress models were related…
Place, social exchange and health: Proposed Sociological Framework
Stress, ageing and quality of life
This paper highlights the role of chronic psychosocial stress in accelerated ageing and age-associated degenerative diseases, referring to the free radical theory of ageing. Chronic work stress in midlife provides an illustrative case to explore these associations, with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease and its subclinical precursors. It is argued that lack of control at work and the experience of an imbalance between efforts spent and reward…
Psychosocial work characteristics and self rated health in four post-communist countries
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine whether psychosocial factors at work are related to self rated health in post-communist countries. DESIGN AND SETTINGS: Random samples of men and women in five communities in four countries were sent a postal questionnaire (Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania) or were invited to an interview (Hungary). Working subjects (n=3941) reported their self rated health in the past 12 months (5 point scale), their socioeconomi…
When reciprocity fails: Effort–reward imbalance in relation to coronary heart disease and health functioning within the Whitehall II study
Background: A deleterious psychosocial work environment, as defined by high efforts expended in relation to few rewards reaped, is hypothesised to increase the risk of future poor health outcomes. Aims: To test this hypothesis within a cohort of London based civil servants. Methods: Effort–reward imbalance (ERI) was measured among 6895 male and 3413 female civil servants aged 35–55 during the first phase of the Whitehall II study (1985–88). Parti…
Psychosocial work environment and myocardial infarction: Improving risk estimation by combining two complementary job stress models in the SHEEP Study
Objectives: Associations between two alternative formulations of job stress derived from the effort-reward imbalance and the job strain model and first non-fatal acute myocardial infarction were studied. Whereas the job strain model concentrates on situational (extrinsic) characteristics the effort-reward imbalance model analyses distinct person (intrinsic) characteristics in addition to situational ones. In view of these conceptual differences t…
Socioeconomic differences in children's and adolescents' hospital admissions in Germany: A report based on health insurance data on selected diagnostic categories
Study objective: The extent of social inequalities in children's hospitalisation risks was examined in terms of socioeconomic status and parents' nationality. This was considered in terms of inpatient treatment attributable to a number of diagnoses (ICD-9), especially infectious diseases and psychiatric disorders. Design and setting: Analyses were performed with records of a German statutory health insurance comprising 48 412 (52.8% male and 47.2…
The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons
Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: A comparative cross-sectional study
Effort–Reward Imbalance, Overcommitment, and Measures of Cortisol and Blood Pressure Over the Working Day
Objective: To assess the biological correlates of effort–reward imbalance and overcommitment to work using measurements over the working day. Methods: Participants were 197 working men and women aged 45 to 59 years, recruited from the Whitehall II epidemiological cohort. Salivary cortisol was sampled on waking, 30 minutes later, and then at 2-hour intervals from 8:00 hours to 22:00 hours. Blood pressure was measured every 20 minutes using ambulat…
Social Productivity and Well-being of Older People: A Sociological Exploration
Psychosocial work environment and health: New evidence
“New” occupational health research for science and policy Despite profound changes in modern working life occupational health research has maintained a rather narrow view of its topic, dealing almost exclusively with physical, chemical, or otherwise material conditions.1,2 In view of a substantial body of scientific evidence of adverse effects on health produced by a stressful psychosocial work environment this restriction is no longer justified.…
Is the effect of work stress on cardiovascular mortality confounded by socioeconomic factors in the Valmet study
Epigenetic regulators and transcription factors establish distinct regulatory networks for gene regulation to maintain the embryonic stem cells (ESC) state. Although much has been learned regarding individual epigenetic regulators, their combinatorial functions remain elusive. Here, we report combinatorial functions of histone demethylases (HDMs) in gene regulation of mouse ESCs that are currently unknown. We generated a histone demethylome (HDMo…
Housing and health in Germany
Study objectives: To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. Design: Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. Setting: Population based sample in Germany. Participants…
Medicine (61 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (51 works) · Psychology (51 works) · Workplace Health and Well-being (48 works) · Psychiatry (42 works) · Gerontology (32 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Psychosocial (28 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (23 works) · Demography (22 works)