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dc.contributor.authorBakkeli, Nan Zou
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-25T15:10:28Z
dc.date.available2022-03-25T15:10:28Z
dc.date.created2021-05-09T13:36:31Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-08
dc.identifier.issn2352-8273
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2987737
dc.description.abstractBackground: The COVID-19 outbreak has posed considerable challenges for people’s health, work situations and life satisfaction. This article reports on a study of the relationship between self-reported health and life satisfaction before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, and examines the role of work in explaining the health–life satisfaction relationship. Method: The study was based on survey data collected from 3185 Norwegian employees in 2019 and 3002 employees in 2020. Propensity score matching techniques were used to assess the mediating effects of work situations and income loss on the health–life satisfaction relationship. Skew-t regression models were further applied to estimate changes in life satisfaction before and during the pandemic, as well as to explore different underlying mechanisms for the health–life satisfaction association. Results: The study found a negative association between ill health and life satisfaction. Compared to the healthy population, people with poor health were more likely to experience worsened work situations. A negative work situation is further associated with lower life satisfaction, and the pandemic aggravated life satisfaction for those who had worsened work situations. When exploring central contributing factors for life satisfaction, we found that health-related risks and work-life balance played predominant roles in predicting life satisfaction before the pandemic, while different types of household structure were among the most important predictors of life satisfaction during the pandemic. Conclusion: A reduction in life satisfaction is explained by ill health, but different underlying mechanisms facilitated people’s life satisfaction before and during the pandemic. While work situation and health risks were important predictors for life satisfaction in 2019, worries about more unstable work situations and less access to family support accentuated worsened life satisfaction in 2020. The findings suggest the necessity of labour market interventions that address the security and maintenance of proper and predictable work situations, especially in these more uncertain times.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper is part of the project ‘CorRisk: Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical inter-ventions and labour market consequences’, funded by a grant from the Research Council of Norway, grant no. 312716.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSSM - Population Health;Volume 14, June 2021, 100804
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectLife satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectHealthen_US
dc.subjectWorken_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.titleHealth, work, and contributing factors on life satisfaction: A study in Norway before and during the COVID-19 pandemicen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.source.articlenumber100804en_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100804
dc.identifier.cristin1908978
dc.source.journalSSM - Population Healthen_US
dc.source.volume14en_US
dc.source.issue14en_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-16en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 312716en_US


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