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

随着先进社会非标准工作安排的增加，对健康不利的紧张工作环境的静态理论模型（如“努力-回报不平衡”（ERI））需要补充一种方法，解决关键的就业历史之前或与当前的紧张工作同时发生。该项目是最早将这两条社会学研究路线联合收割机结合起来的项目之一，特别侧重于它们与健康功能的关系。使用来自大型新队列研究CONSTANCES的数据，我们分析了关键就业历史和当前紧张工作（ERI）与一组健康功能指标的关联。作为一个核心目标，我们测试的假设，关键的就业历史与目前紧张的工作的相互作用是与相对最低水平的健康功能的所有指标。CONSTANCES研究包括法国中年就业男性和女性的全国代表性样本，并包含有关个人工作历史的详细回顾性数据。作为该项目的一个创新方面，将在一个以理论为基础的关键就业历史类型学的框架内，运用序列分析和回归模型对数据进行分析。预计结果将界定接触威胁性非标准工作安排的弱势雇员群体的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.