Job strain and mortality in elderly men: social network, support, and influence as buffers.
The aim was to investigate whether job strain affects mortality in a representative population of elderly men, and whether social network and social support outside the workplace can buffer the negative health effects of job strain. A higher relative mortality risk (RR) was found among men exposed to job strain (RR = 1.7). The combination of exposure to job strain and seven different measures of weak social network and social support was associated with a further increased RR ranging from 2.1 to 4.6.
Falk
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Department of Community Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
Hanson
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Isacsson
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Ostergren
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D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D012307:Risk Factors; D012934:Social Isolation; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*