Hardie Jessica Halliday, Daw Jonathan, Gaddis S Michael
Hunter College, City University of New York.
Pennsylvania State University.
Socius. 2019 Jan-Dec;5. doi: 10.1177/2378023119836003. Epub 2019 Apr 3.
Existing research linking SES with work primarily focuses on the precursors (educational attainment) and outcomes (income) of work, rather than asking how diverse facets of work influence health. Using four waves of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we evaluate whether multiple measures of respondent job characteristics, respondent preferences for those characteristics, and their interaction substantially improve the fit of sociological models of men's and women's physical and mental health at midlife and old age compared to traditional models using educational attainment, parental SES, and income. We find that non-wage job characteristics predict men's and women's physical and mental health over the lifecourse, although we find little evidence that the degree to which one's job accords with one's job preferences matters for health. These findings expand what we know about how work matters for health, demonstrating how the manner and condition under which one works has lasting impacts on wellbeing.
现有将社会经济地位（SES）与工作联系起来的研究主要关注工作的前提条件（教育程度）和结果（收入），而非探究工作的不同方面如何影响健康。利用来自威斯康星纵向研究的四轮数据，我们评估了与使用教育程度、父母社会经济地位和收入的传统模型相比，受访者工作特征的多种衡量指标、受访者对这些特征的偏好及其相互作用是否能显著改善中年和老年男性及女性身心健康社会学模型的拟合度。我们发现，非工资性工作特征在整个生命历程中预测男性和女性的身心健康，尽管我们几乎没有发现证据表明一个人的工作符合其工作偏好的程度对健康有影响。这些发现扩展了我们对工作如何影响健康的认识，表明一个人的工作方式和条件对幸福感有持久影响。
