Critical employment histories, work stress and health functioning: the CONSTANCES study

随着发达社会非标准工作安排的增加，对健康不利的压力工作环境的静态理论模型(例如：“努力-回报不平衡”（ERI）需要通过一种方法来补充，即解决当前压力大的工作之前或同时发生的关键就业历史。这个项目是第一个将这两种社会学研究结合起来的项目之一，特别关注它们与健康功能的关系。利用一项新的大型队列研究constes的数据，我们分析了关键就业经历和当前压力工作（就ERI而言）与一组健康功能指标之间的关联。作为一个核心目标，我们检验了一个假设，即关键就业经历与当前压力工作的相互作用与健康功能的所有指标的相对最低水平相关。康斯坦斯研究包括法国具有全国代表性的中年就业男性和女性样本，并包含个人工作经历的详细回顾性数据。作为该项目的一个创新方面，数据将在应用序列分析和回归建模的关键就业历史的基于理论的类型学框架内进行分析。预期结果将确定易受非标准工作安排威胁的弱势雇员群体职业健康预防措施的切入点。

With an increase of non-standard job arrangements in advanced societies static theoretical models of a health-adverse stressful work environment (e.g. "Effort-Reward Imbalance" (ERI)) need to be supplemented by an approach that addresses critical employment histories preceding or co-occurring with current stressful work. This project is one of the first to combine these two lines of sociological research, with a special focus on their association with health functioning. Using data from a large new cohort study, CONSTANCES, we analyse associations of critical employment histories and current stressful work (in terms of ERI) with a set of indicators of health functioning. As a core aim, we test the hypothesis that the interaction of critical employment histories with currently stressful work is associated with relatively lowest levels of all indicators of health functioning. The CONSTANCES study consists of a nationally representative sample of middle-aged employed men and women in France and contains detailed retrospective data on individual work histories. As an innovative aspect of the project, data will be analysed in the frame of a theory-based typology of critical employment histories applying sequence analysis and regression modelling. Results are expected to define entry points for preventive measures of occupational health among groups of vulnerable employees exposed to threatening non-standard job arrangements.