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Table 1 Protective and risk factors for psychological distress in the research data according to previous literature

From: Factors contributing to psychological distress in the working population, with a special reference to gender difference

Protective factors

Conceptualisation in the survey questionnaire

Reference

Sociodemographic

Being married

Having children under 18 years of age

Ben-Zur 2018 [46]

Scott et al. 2010 [47]

Helbig et al. 2006 [56]

McKenzie et al. 2012 [57]

Social support

Being active in societies, hobby groups, etc.

Having other people to give practical help

Having other people to give emotional support

Kendler et al. 2005 [33]

Amagasa et al. 2017 [38]

Takeda et al. 2015 [39]

Perrewe et al. 2002 [35]

Belle 1988 [36]

Work-family enrichment

Being able to forget the work at home

Having more energy to be with children when also going to work

Greenhaus et al. 2006 [15]

Xu et al. 2018 [18]

Risk factors

Conceptualisation in the survey questionnaire

 

Sociodemographic

Being divorced

Being widowed

Living alone

Ben-Zur 2018 [46]

Scott et al. 2010 [47]

Kaprio et al. 1987 [48]

Pulkki-RÃ¥back et al. 2012 [49]

Joutsenniemi et al. 2005 [50]

Lack of social support

Loneliness

Beutel et al. 2017 [41]

Hyland et al. 2019 [42]

Financial difficulties

Having difficulties in covering household costs

Nagasu et al. 2019 [66]

Holden et al. 2016 [67]

Informal caregiving

Helping parents outside the home

Helping children outside the home

Helping other people outside the home

Lacey et al. 2018 [72]

Job related factors

Low job satisfaction

High physical strain of work

Faragher et al. 2003 [27]

Hiesinger et al. 2019 [32]

Work-to-family conflict

Feeling of neglecting domestic issues because of the work

Ignoring family when wholly absorbed in the work

Feeling inadequacy as a parent

Remery et al. 2019 [20]

Family-to-work conflict

Finding it difficult to concentrate of work because of domestic issues

Marchand et al. 2016 [13]

Byron 2005 [17]

Lunau et al. 2014 [23]

Eby et al. 2005 [24]

Harmful lifestyle factors

Alcohol

Smoking

Ranjit et al. 2019 [59]

Grant et al. 2004 [60]

Li et al. 2019 [61]

Berg et al. 2019 [62]