Neo-Marxian social class inequalities in the mental well-being of employed men and women: The role of European welfare regimes

Deborah De Moortel, Laia Palència, Lucía Artazcoz, Carme Borrell and Christophe Vanroelen

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 128, issue C, 188-200

Abstract: The relation between “neo-Marxian” social class (NMSC) and health in the working population has received considerable attention in public health research. However, less is known about the distribution of mental well-being according to NMSC in a European context. The objectives of this study are (i) to analyse the association of mental well-being and NMSC among employees in Europe (using a welfare regime typology), (ii) to investigate whether the relation between NMSC and mental well-being is the same in women compared to men within each welfare regime, and (iii) to examine within each welfare regime the role of the gender division of labour and job quality as potential mediating factors in explaining this association.

Keywords: Neo-Marxian social class; Mental well-being; Health inequalities; Welfare regimes; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.027

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