TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Organizational change and employees' mental health: The protective role of sense of coherence
JO  - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
A1  - Pahkin, K.
A1  - Väänänen, A.
A1  - Koskinen, A.
A1  - Bergbom, B.
A1  - Kouvonen, A.
SP  - 118
EP  - 123
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of sense of coherence (SOC) on psychiatric events in the context of organizational merger. <br><br>METHODS: Data were derived from a prospective "Still Working" study using questionnaire and health register data. The study population (n = 4279) consisted of employees with no psychiatric events prior to the 5-year mental health follow-up. <br><br>RESULTS: Employees with a weaker premerger SOC were at a higher risk of perceiving the organizational change negatively (odds ratio = 1.83, 95% CI: 1.57 to 2.14) and had an elevated risk of postmerger psychiatric events (hazard ratio = 1.42, 95% CI: 1.04 to 1.94). A stronger SOC decreased the adverse effect of negative appraisal of change on psychiatric events. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: A strong premerger SOC seems to be a protective factor for mental health when the employee experiences negative changes during an organizational merger. © 2011 The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1076-2752
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e318206f0cb
ID  - ref1
ER  -