The aim of this study was to contribute to the theoretical development within the field of labour market effects on mental health during life by integrating Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model with mainly earlier theoretical work on life-course theory. An
The article argues that theories on social simulation can shed light on how nurses manage to meet these challenges. The core assumption of social simulationism is that we do not understand other people by forming mental representations of how they think, but by putting ourselves in their ...
Health Policy, 94.1 (2010), pp. 45-53 Google Scholar Adema et al., 2011 W. Adema, P. Fron, M. Ladaique Is the European welfare state really more expensive?: indicators on social spending, 1980-2012; and a manual to the OECD social expenditure database (SOCX) OECD Social, Employment...
These subjective wellbeing (SWB) measures are not widely considered to be replacements for traditional welfare measures, but rather, complementary indicators which can provide new insights into who is doing well and who is doing badly and why (Graham, 2012). A large body of literature has ...
Thus the greatest risk of ill health and mortality was evident in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, as expected. After adjustment for IQ, a marked attenuation in risk occurred for poor mental health (range of attenuation in risk ratio across the five socioeconomic indicators: 15-58...
Conclusion: Alth-Although assessments of both psychological and physiological indicators of stress and ill-health will inform the underlying mechanisms of the associations between work stress and disease, assessing the role of trait mindfulness in this relationship may prove useful....