Citation

Vaez M, Ponce de Leon A, Laflamme L. Work 2006; 26(2): 167-177.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Personal Injury Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Box 12718, 112 94 Stockholm, Sweden. marjan.vaez@cns.ki.se

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, IOS Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16477109

Abstract

This study compares aspects of the health-related behaviors and working life of first-year university students with those of their working counterparts and assesses the roles of these aspects as predictors of each groups' perceived quality of life (QoL). Subjects were taken from two cross-sectional data sets (a student survey and a population survey) from the Swedish central-western region of Ostergotland. Male and female respondents aged 20-35 years were extracted and comparison were made considering in turn socio-demographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, exposure to abusive events at work and perceived QoL. University students smoked and used oral snuff in smaller proportions, they were not as frequent drinkers as their working counterparts, but they tended to drink more when they did drink. Threats and violence were less prevalent among students, but sexual harassment, were almost as common. The strongest predictors of perceived QoL for both groups are expected and former perceived QoL, followed by current self-rated health.

Language: en