eprintid: 8504
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creators_name: Ferrie, JE
creators_name: Head, J
creators_name: Shipley, MJ
creators_name: Vahtera, J
creators_name: Marmot, MG
creators_name: Kivimäki, M
title: Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: The Whitehall II study
ispublished: pub
subjects: 3000
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: D12
divisions: G19
abstract: Background: Previous studies of organisational justice and mental health have mostly examined women and have not examined the effect of change in justice. Aim: To examine effects of change in the treatment of employees by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) on minor psychiatric morbidity, using a cohort with a large proportion of men. Methods: Data are from the Whitehall II study, a prospective cohort of 10 308 white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 at baseline) (Phase 1, 1985-88). Employment grade, relational justice, job demands, job control, social support at work, effort-reward imbalance, physical illness, and psychiatric morbidity were measured at baseline. Relational justice was assessed again at Phase 2 (1989-90). The outcome was cases of psychiatric morbidity by Phases 2 and 3 (1991-93) among participants case-free at baseline. Results: In analyses adjusted for age, grade, and baseline physical illness, women and men exposed to low relational justice at Phase 1 were at higher risk of psychiatric morbidity by Phases 2 and 3. Adjustment for other psychosocial work characteristics, particularly social support and effort-reward imbalance, partially attenuated these associations. A favourable change in justice between Phase 1 and Phase 2 reduced the immediate risk (Phase 2) of psychiatric morbidity, while an adverse change increased the immediate and longer term risk (Phase 3). Conclusion: This study shows that unfair treatment by supervisors increases risk of poor mental health. It appears that the employers' duty to ensure that employees are treated fairly at work also has benefits for health.
date: 2006-01-01
date_type: published
vfaculties: VFPHS
oa_status: green
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Journal Article
elements_source: Scopus
elements_id: 73851
doi: 10.1136/oem.2005.022269
lyricists_name: Ferrie, Jane
lyricists_name: Head, Jennifer
lyricists_name: Marmot, Michael
lyricists_name: Shipley, Martin
lyricists_id: JEFER50
lyricists_id: JAHEA10
lyricists_id: MGMAR64
lyricists_id: MJSHI88
full_text_status: public
publication: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
volume: 63
number: 7
pagerange: 443-450
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1351-0711
citation:        Ferrie, JE;    Head, J;    Shipley, MJ;    Vahtera, J;    Marmot, MG;    Kivimäki, M;      (2006)    Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: The Whitehall II study.                   Occupational and Environmental Medicine , 63  (7)   pp. 443-450.    10.1136/oem.2005.022269 <https://doi.org/10.1136/oem.2005.022269>.       Green open access   
 
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