PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

Along with the structural changes of the economy, the mental health of employees becomes increasingly important for their performance. The reporting of mental health is an essential precondition for workplace health interventions. This contibution deals with the mental health of employees from ten different companies. Almost 1 in 5 employees rate their mental health as poor. Most notably, women with lower status in the services sector are affected. Those who are temporarily in a bad mood are often affected by strong physical complaints and tend to assess the quality of their work as rather poor. Moreover, the data from 3,349 employees show that the amount of social capital of an organization highly correlates with the mental health of their employees. Work-related stress factors can be detected and prevented if the influence of social factors on mental health is taken into consideration.