title: Understanding baby boomer workers' well-being in Australia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The baby boomer generation poses challenges to understand how to enhance both the well-being and the continuing workforce participation of older workers. We sought to explore the role of social relations both at work and in other domains of life, in relation to the health and well-being of the baby boomer workforce in Australia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Employed participants (n = 743) born 1946-1965 inclusive provided information about their work environment, financial security and loneliness. Regressions were used to explore the relationships of those variables to well-being (work-life interference, absenteeism, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, health and psychological distress).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Social environment indicators especially supervisor support and worker loneliness reliably increased the variance explained by demographics and work demands and control, in well-being outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To maintain the well-being and workforce participation of baby boomer generation workers, employers need to attend to creating worker-friendly environments.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. helen.winefield@adelaide.edu.au.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Winefield
authors.affiliation: Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Lisel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: O'Dwyer
authors.affiliation: Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007587:Job Description; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008132:Loneliness; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011158:Population Growth; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013021:South Australia; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D016526:Workload; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: ageing; job satisfaction; loneliness; mental health; social support