Sleeping Problems and Health Behaviors as Mediators Between Organizational Justice and Health

The aim of this longitudinal cohort study was to investigate whether sleeping problems and health behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, and sedentary lifestyle) mediate the association between organizational justice and employee health. Health indicators were minor psychiatric morbidity, as asses...

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Published in:Health psychology 2003-05, Vol.22 (3), p.287-293
Main Authors: Elovainio, Marko, Kivimäki, Mika, Vahtera, Jussi, Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa, Virtanen, Marianna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activity Level
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcohol Use
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Health
Health Behavior
Health staff related problems. Vocational training
Health Status
Human
Humans
Justice
Life Style
Lifestyle
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Health
Middle Aged
Occupational Health - legislation & jurisprudence
Organization of mental health. Health systems
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Justice
Personnel, Hospital
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regression Analysis
Risk Factors
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders - complications
Smoking - psychology
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Tobacco Smoking
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Summary:The aim of this longitudinal cohort study was to investigate whether sleeping problems and health behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, and sedentary lifestyle) mediate the association between organizational justice and employee health. Health indicators were minor psychiatric morbidity, as assessed by the General Health Questionnaire ( U. Werneke, D. P. Goldberg, I. Yalcin, & B. T. Ustun, 2000 ), and poor self-rated health status. The results of logistic regression analysis of data for 416 male and 3,357 female hospital employees working during the 1998-2000 period in 10 Finnish hospitals suggest that sleeping problems are one of the underlying factors causing the adverse health effects of low organizational justice at work. No support for a mediating role of health behaviors between low organizational justice and health problems was obtained.
ISSN:0278-6133
1930-7810
DOI:10.1037/0278-6133.22.3.287