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Table 3 Associations of work stress with prospective depressive symptoms (multivariate logistic regression analyses)

From: Depressive symptoms and psychosocial stress at work among older employees in three continents

  

Depressive Symptoms (2006)

  

USA

EUROPE

Effort-reward imbalance (2004)

Model1

1.94 (1.21 – 3.13) **

1.79 (1.53 – 2.09) ***

 

N=

683

6063

 

Model2 + symptoms 2004

1.53 (0.91 – 2.57)

1.51 (1.28 – 1.78) ***

 

N=

673

6034

Low control (2004)

Model1

1.65 (1.03 – 2.63)*

1.57 (1.34 – 1.84) ***

 

N=

714

6246

 

Model2 + symptoms 2004

1.46 (0.88 – 2.45)

1.42 (1.20 – 1.68) ***

 

N=

704

6213

  1. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Longitudinal data.
  2. Odds Ratios are adjusted for gender, age, education, employment status, working hours in model 1.
  3. In model 2 outcome depression at follow up is additionally adjusted for depressive symptoms at baseline.
  4. Given the multilevel structure of the European data, we applied multilevel methods where individuals (level 1) are nested within countries (level 2).
  5. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.
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