Job quality and mental health in construction (2022)

Summary

Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard, and Rita Peihua Zhang have published a new paper in the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 
  
The paper, titled Job Quality and Construction Workers’ Mental Health, uses a life course perspective to identify, compare, and contrast psychosocial characteristics of job quality that are related to mental health in three age groups of manual/non-managerial construction workers: young workers, middle-aged workers, and older workers.
  
The research shows that construction workers’ mental health declines when experiencing adverse job conditions and the magnitude of decline increases with the number of job adversities. Specifically, the middle-aged workers experience more accelerated decline in mental health compared to workers in other age groups when facing two job adversities. 

The paper also explores age-related differences in the way that individual job quality aspects are related to mental health, highlighting the need to develop targeted approaches to protecting and promoting the mental health of construction workers in different age groups or life stages. 
 
The full paper is freely available for download here.

Team

• Payam Pirzadeh
• Helen Lingard
• Rita Peihua Zhang