A social work study on relationship between socio-economic factors and mental health

Autor: Zeinab Kamrani, Abdullah Shafiabadi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Management Science Letters, Vol 4, Iss 7, Pp 1563-1566 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1923-2934
1923-9343
DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2014.6.001
Popis: This paper presents a social work study to investigate the effects of employees’ income and age on their mental health. The study has accomplished among a sample of 150 randomly selected employees who worked for Esfahan steel company located in city of Esfahan, Iran. The study uses a standard questionnaire, which is adopted from Goldberg and Williams (2000) [Goldberg, D., & Williams, P. (2000). General health questionnaire (GHQ). Swindon, Wiltshire, UK: NFER Nelson.]. The results of the implementation of ANOVA test have revealed that while there was a significant and positive relationship between employees’ salary and mental health, there was not any meaningful relationship between employees’ age and mental health.
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