TY - JOUR A1 - Muschalla, Beate T1 - A concept of psychological work capacity demands BT - first evaluation in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders JF - Work : a journal of prevention, assessment & rehabilitation N2 - BACKGROUND: Work capacity demands are a concept to describe which psychological capacities are required in a job. Assessing psychological work capacity demands is of specific importance when mental health problems at work endanger work ability. Exploring psychological work capacity demands is the basis for mental hazard analysis or rehabilitative action, e.g. in terms of work adjustment. OBJECTIVE: This is the first study investigating psychological work capacity demands in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders. METHODS: A structured interview on psychological work capacity demands (Mini-ICF-Work; Muschalla, 2015; Linden et al., 2015) was done with 166 rehabilitation patients of working age. All interviews were done by a state-licensed socio-medically trained psychotherapist. Inter-rater-reliability was assessed by determining agreement in independent co-rating in 65 interviews. For discriminant validity purposes, participants filled in the Short Questionnaire for Work Analysis (KFZA, Prumper et al., 1994). RESULTS: In different professional fields, different psychological work capacity demands were of importance. The Mini-ICF-Work capacity dimensions reflect different aspects than the KFZA. Patients with mental disorders were longer on sick leave and had worse work ability prognosis than patients without mental disorders, although both groups reported similar work capacity demands. CONCLUSIONS: Psychological work demands - which are highly relevant for work ability prognosis and work adjustment processes - can be explored and differentiated in terms of psychological capacity demands. KW - Mental disorders KW - mental health KW - sick leave KW - work ability KW - work demands Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-182691 SN - 1051-9815 SN - 1875-9270 VL - 59 IS - 3 SP - 375 EP - 386 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Muschalla, Beate A1 - Henning, Anne A1 - Haake, Tim Woody A1 - Cornetz, Kathrin A1 - Olbrich, Dieter T1 - Mental health problem or workplace problem or something else BT - what contributes to work perception? JF - Disability and rehabilitation : an international, multidisciplinary journal N2 - Purpose: Work perception is an important predictor for work ability and, therefore, of interest for rehabilitation. Until now it is unclear to which extent different psychological aspects explain work perception. This study investigates in which way workplace problems on the one hand, and mental health and coping on the other hand, contribute to work perception. Methods: A heterogeneous sample of 384 persons in working age with and without mental health problems was recruited. Participants gave self-reports on workplace problems, mental health problems, work-coping, work-anxiety, and work perception. Results: Persons with mental health problems and workplace problems (M + W) perceive the highest degree of work demands, followed by persons with workplace problems but without mental health problems (NM + W). Work-anxiety appeared as the strongest factor explaining perception of high work demands, whereas general mental health problems did not contribute significantly to variance explanation. Conclusions: Persons with specific mental health problems in terms of work-anxiety may be expected to perceive higher work demands. They may be detected when asking for work perception, e.g., within the frame of return-to-work interventions in rehabilitation, or in occupational health settings by mental hazard analysis. KW - work ability KW - work anxiety KW - workplace KW - mental disorders KW - rehabilitation KW - work perception Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1501099 SN - 0963-8288 SN - 1464-5165 VL - 42 IS - 4 SP - 502 EP - 509 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -