As of: February 19, 2024, 1:07 p.m
By: Judith Braun
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Stress at work can increase the risk of depression.
Researchers found out which factors play a role.
According to the
Federal Ministry of Health,
the causes of depression are complex.
They can include biological, genetic and environmental factors.
For example, poor working conditions and stress factors at work can also increase the risk of developing depression.
In a study, scientists have identified some factors that play an important role.
Depression: Six stress factors at work can cause suffering
Lack of recognition at work can increase the risk of depression.
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In their study published in
The Lancet,
a research team led by epidemiologists Birgit Greiner from the Irish University College Cork and Reiner Rugulies from the National Research Center for the Working Environment in Copenhagen evaluated seven meta-analyses from 2017 to 2021.
These included numerous studies that examined the connection between occupational stress and mental illness in a total of hundreds of thousands of employees.
They all came from high-income countries.
In addition, they showed no symptoms at the start of the study.
In some cases, however, a mental disorder developed over time and was diagnosed clinically.
First, the team of scientists identified 17 unfavorable working conditions from the meta-analyses.
They then calculated the statistical connection with the occurrence of mental disorders.
They identified a total of 13 stress factors that were associated with an increased risk of developing depression.
They discovered the following six factors, among others:
mobbing
lack of justice
Job insecurity
great emotional stress
lack of support
too little recognition
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Depression because of work: Bullying has the greatest influence on risk
According to the results, bullying has the strongest influence on the risk of depression.
Statistically speaking, the other effects are moderate to weak, but the two study leaders still consider them to be significant.
According to industrial psychologist Dieter Zapf from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, bullying only affects
three
to ten percent of working people.
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