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  - 
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  -