The effect of leaving employment on mental health: Testing 'adaptation' versus 'sensitisation' in a cohort of working-age Australians

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 167-174

  Milner, A ^a   Spittal, M J ^a   Page, A ^b   PageLaMontagne, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB ADAPTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MENTAL COMPONENT SUMMARY; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SENSITIZATION; SHORT FORM 36; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKLOAD;

COHORT; MENTAL HEALTH; MIXED MODELS; SENSITISATION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK;

EID: 84893680011     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101759     Document Type: Article

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