The role of optimism in the relationship between job stress and depressive symptoms. Longitudinal findings from the German Ageing Survey

Stress, and in particular job stress, is a psychological issue and a widespread phenomenon caused by work characteristics as well as personal characteristics which leads to adverse health outcomes (Shields, 2006, Iacovides et al., 2003). Stress outcomes like fatigue, heart disease, depression, diabetes and burnout were discussed in previous literature (Cohen and Herbert, 1996, Iacovides et al., 2003, Melchior et al., 2007). Special emphasis is put on depressive disorders because estimations showed that over the course of one year about 8.9% of the working population aged 15 to 65 in Germany fulfill all criteria for a depressive disorder and up to 26.7% experience depressive symptoms (Wittchen and Jacobi, 2006).
Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research