Australia, work with low quality is defined by low pay and high stress levels. Although one should respect all professions, but in fact the people who work with low-quality jobs experienced more mental health problems.
Workers who belong to lower employment in a study conducted mental disorder is worse than unemployment. Levels of depression, anxiety and negative emotions higher.
Researchers from The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia said that having a job does not always provide benefits for mental health. Studies show that unemployed people get jobs with low-quality mental health condition worsened.
"These findings suggest it should not only reduce unemployment are the focus. But the conditions of employment including benefits, working hours and flexibility should also be considered," said Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, as quoted by LiveScience, Wednesday ( 03/16/2011).
Grzywacz said that people tend to think that all jobs are created equal. But the results of this study further evidence that all jobs are not created equally.
Researchers conducted the study for 7 years starting in 2001. The quality of work being assessed based on four factors: stress and level of demand, the number of employees who control the jobs, job security and whether the worker is paid with fair or not.
After consider various factors such as age, gender, marital status and education level of unemployment is known that mental health equivalent or sometimes better than people who work with a bad job.
People with poor quality of the work showed a decrease greater mental health over time compared with those who are unemployed.
While people with high quality work that is known to increase the average mental health score of 3 points. These results are reported online in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The work has the highest stress levels generally have low quality, as reported by the Independent are:
1. The head chef at a large restaurant
2. Construction workers under pressure to complete construction on time, and must face a harsh environment
3. Fire brigade
4. Nurse
Also according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, job stress or factors that could degrade the quality of work include:
1. Long working hours with little or no rest
2. Unable to participate in the decision making process
3. Demands associated with the lives of others
4. Physically dangerous
For that cermatlah choose a job that still have good mental health. Because jobs with low wages and high levels of stress can exacerbate mental health conditions will affect the whole.
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