TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muschalla, Beate
A1  - Fay, Doris
A1  - Linden, M.
T1  - Self-reported workplace perception as indicators of work anxieties
JF  - Occupational medicine
N2  - Work anxiety is a potentially disabling mental health problem, which can cause (long-term) sickness absence. In many cases patients do not openly report their anxieties and tend to give externalizing explanations of inner problems. Therefore people with work anxiety may perceive their workplace more negatively than those without such anxiety. To investigate the relation between subjective work description and work anxiety. There were 148 inpatient participants and 8015 general population controls. Patients with work anxiety described their workplace significantly more negatively than patients without work anxiety and employees in the general population, with no differences in workplace descriptions between psychosomatic patients without work anxiety and the general population sample. The type of complaint about work conditions was related to the specific type of work anxiety. Reports about workplace burdens can be indicative of work anxiety and should prompt further in-depth assessments. The content of complaints about work conditions may point to the type of underlying work anxiety.
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - diagnostic
KW  - sickness absence
KW  - work anxiety
KW  - workplace
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqv160
SN  - 0962-7480
SN  - 1471-8405
VL  - 66
SP  - 168
EP  - 170
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -