Title
The efects of workplace psychosocial factors on whether Japanese dual-earner couples with preschool children have additional children: A prospective study
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Eguchi H.
Shimazu A.
Fujiwara T.
Iwata N.
Shimada K.
Takahashi M.
Tokita M.
Watai I.
Kawakami N.
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Industrial Health
Abstract
This study explored the efect of workplace psychosocial factors (job demand, job control, and workplace social support) on dual-earner couples in Japan having additional children, using a prospective study design. We conducted a 2-year prospective cohort study with 103 dual-earner couples with preschool children in Japan, as part of the Tokyo Work-Family Interface Study II. We used multivariable logistic regression analyses to evaluate the prospective association of job strain (categorized into low-strain job, active job, passive job, and strain job groups) and workplace social support (high and low) with couples having additional children during the follow-up period, adjusting for age, for men and women separately. Men in the active job group (i.e., with high job demands and high job control) had a signiicantly higher odds ratio (OR) of having additional children during the follow-up period, after controlling for age (OR 9.07, 95% conidence interval: 1.27-64.85). No signiicant association between any workplace psychosocial factor and having additional children was conirmed among women. Having an active job may have a positive inluence on having additional children among men in dual-earner couples.
Start page
498
End page
504
Volume
54
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud ocupacional
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85005958952
PubMed ID
Source
Industrial Health
ISSN of the container
00198366
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus