Health and work-life balance across types of work schedules: A latent class analysis. 2019

Corinna Brauner, and Anne M Wöhrmann, and Kilian Frank, and Alexandra Michel
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Dortmund, Germany. Electronic address: brauner.corinna@baua.bund.de.

This study explores how different aspects of working time demands (e.g., shift work) and working time control (e.g., beginning/end of workday) can be clustered into distinct types of work schedules and how they relate to health and work-life balance. Data from 13,540 full-time employees interviewed in the 2015 BAuA-Working Time Survey was used. By means of latent class analysis, we extracted six types of work schedules. Subjective health was highest in the flexible extended and flexible standard schedules, both featuring high working time control. Work-life balance was highest in the flexible standard and rigid standard schedules and lowest in schedules with high working time demands, namely the extended shift, rigid all-week, and rigid extended schedules. Employees with high working time demands and low control represent risk groups prone to impairments of well-being. Overall, this study offers an intuitive taxonomy for the design of sustainable work schedules.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007588 Job Satisfaction Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation. Work Satisfaction,Job Satisfactions,Satisfaction, Job,Satisfaction, Work,Satisfactions, Job,Satisfactions, Work,Work Satisfactions
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D004651 Employment The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary. Employment Termination,Employment Status,Labor Force,Occupational Status,Status, Occupational,Underemployment,Labor Forces,Status, Employment,Termination, Employment
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000072358 Work-Life Balance Complex ongoing balance between a person's working life and private life. Work-Family Balance,Work-Life Conflict,Life-Work Imbalance,Balance, Work-Family,Balances, Work-Family,Conflict, Work-Life,Conflicts, Work-Life,Work Family Balance,Work Life Conflict,Work-Family Balances,Work-Life Conflicts
D000077272 Latent Class Analysis A statistical algorithm used to analyze clusters of observed variables by constructing categorical unobserved or latent segment based on weighted analysis and the average probabilities. Such latent classes are used to infer variables whose relationships are not directly observed. In biomedical research, it is often used to categorize data that allows the determination of symptom clusters. Latent Class Model,Latent Variable Modeling,Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis,Structural Equation Modeling,Latent Class Analyses,Latent Class Models,Latent Variable Modelings,Model, Latent Class,Modeling, Latent Variable,Modeling, Structural Equation,Structural Equation Modelings,Variable Modeling, Latent
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D013997 Time Factors Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations. Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor

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