Mental well-being at work

by Kyösti Waris

Abstract Waris, K. (1999). Mental Well-Being at Work. A Sign of a Healthy Organisation and a Necessary Precondition for Organisational Development. University of Turku, Department of Psychology, Finland. One of the aims of the study was to clarify the reliability and validity of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and the Eigenzustand (EZ) method as measures of the objective characteristics of work and short-term mental work load in the Finnish data. The reliability and validity were examined taking into consideration the theoretical backgrounds of the methods and the reliability of the measurements. The methods were used for finding out the preconditions for organisational development based on self-improvement and clarifying the impacts of working environment (organisational functioning and job characteristics) on a worker’s mental state and health. The influences were examined on a general level - regardless of individual personal or specific contextual factors. One aim was also to clari