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 5 Subjective wellbeing and mental health: Multivariate regression models with overall psychosocial job quality indicator, working males, Wave 1 of the Ten to Men cohort

	Model 3 Personal Wellbeing Index			Model 4 SF-12 Mental Health
Overall job quality	Coef.	[95 % CI]		Coef.	[95 % CI]
Optimal				ref
1 adversity	−4.14	−4.84	−3.45	−1.65	−2.04	−1.26
2 adversities	−8.90	−9.73	−8.06	−3.52	−3.99	−3.05
Poorest quality jobs	−13.00	−14.21	−11.77	−5.64	−6.34	−4.93
Occupational Skill level
High	ref			ref
Medium	−2.03	−2.84	−1.22	0.29	−0.17	0.75
Low	−3.46	−4.36	−2.56	0.42	−0.09	0.93
Employment arrangements
Permanent	ref			ref
Casual/temporary	−0.59	−1.67	0.48	0.27	−0.34	0.876
Fixed term	−0.82	−2.36	0.73	−0.62	−1.50	0.25
Self employed	0.61	−0.25	1.46	−0.67	−1.15	−0.19
Hours worked in main job
up to 40 h	ref			ref
over 40 h	1.59	0.98	2.21	0.20	−0.15	0.55
Disability
No	ref			ref
Yes	−9.84	−11.23	−8.44	−5.97	−6.77	−5.17
Completed year 12
Not completed year 12	ref			ref
Completed year 12	0.44	−0.29	1.17	−0.17	−0.58	0.24
Highest qualification after school
No other qualification	ref			ref
Trade qualification	2.17	1.28	3.05	0.58	0.08	1.08
Non university degree	0.19	−0.76	1.15	−0.48	−1.02	0.06
University degree	1.56	0.58	2.54	−0.26	−0.81	0.30
Other	−3.00	−6.61	0.62	−0.80	−2.85	1.25

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