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Does workplace social capital buffer the effects of job stress? A cross-sectional, multilevel analysis of cigarette smoking among U.S. manufacturing workers

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posted on 2010-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Sapp, I Kawachi, G Sorensen, Tony LaMontagneTony LaMontagne, S Subramanian
Objective: To investigate whether workplace social capital buffers the association between job stress and smoking status. Methods: As part of the Harvard Cancer Prevention Project's Healthy Directions—Small Business Study, interviewer-administered questionnaires were completed by 1740 workers and 288 managers in 26 manufacturing firms (84% and 85% response). Social capital was assessed by multiple items measured at the individual level among workers and contextual level among managers. Job stress was operationalized by the demand-control model. Multilevel logistic regression was used to estimate associations between job stressors and smoking and test for effect modification by social capital measures. Results: Workplace social capital (both summary measures) buffered associations between high job demands and smoking. One compositional item—worker trust in managers—buffered associations between job strain and smoking. Conclusion: Workplace social capital may modify the effects of psychosocial working conditions on health behaviors.

History

Journal

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Volume

52

Issue

7

Pagination

740 - 750

Publisher

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

1076-2752

eISSN

1536-5948

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins