Psychosocial job quality, mental health, and subjective wellbeing: a cross-sectional analysis of the baseline wave of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health

Table 4 Subjective wellbeing and mental health: Multivariate regression models with individual psychosocial job quality indicators mutually adjusted, working males, Wave 1 of the Ten to Men cohort

	Model 1 Personal Wellbeing Index			Model 2 SF-12 Mental Health
Individual stressors	Coef.	[95 % CI]		Coef.	[95 % CI]
Job Control	1.25	1.04	1.47	0.54	0.42	0.67
Job Demand	0.25	<0.01	0.50	−0.30	−0.44	−0.15
Job Security	3.08	2.86	3.31	1.13	1.00	1.26
Fair Pay	1.25	1.07	1.42	0.38	0.27	0.48
Occupational Skill level
High	ref			ref
Medium	−1.35	−2.14	−0.56	0.41	−0.05	0.87
Low	−2.24	−3.15	−1.33	0.54	0.01	1.06
Employment arrangements
Permanent	ref			ref
Casual/temporary	1.02	−0.04	2.07	0.62	<0.01	1.23
Fixed term	0.53	−0.96	2.03	−0.10	−0.97	0.77
Self employed	0.46	−0.42	1.34	−0.81	−1.32	−0.30
Hours worked in main job
up to 40 h	ref			ref
over 40 h	0.99	0.39	1.59	0.11	−0.24	0.46
Disability
No	ref			ref
Yes	−9.29	−10.63	−7.95	−5.75	−6.54	−4.96
Completed year 12
Not completed year 12	ref			ref
Completed year 12	0.49	−0.21	1.18	−0.14	−0.55	0.26
Highest qualification after school
No other qualification	ref			ref
Trade qualification	2.13	1.28	2.98	0.67	0.176	1.17
Non university degree	0.17	−0.75	1.08	−0.39	−0.917	0.15
University degree	1.44	0.49	2.39	−0.16	−0.705	0.39
Other	−3.54	−7.01	−0.07	−0.81	−2.84	1.22

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