- Project number: F 2478
- Institution: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
- Status: Ongoing Project
- Planned end: 2028-03-31
Description:
The study on mental health at work (S-MGA) offers a data basis unique in Germany for the analysis of etiological relationships between working and employment conditions, mental health, work/functional ability and participation in employment. With the third survey wave, the participants of the first and second waves will be interviewed again. The third wave also includes a refresher sample (increase in the number of participants in birth cohorts already taken into account) and an addition of younger birth cohorts. As in the first wave, a random sample is drawn from the target population (employees subject to social insurance contributions in Germany) so that there is again a representative baseline and the sample size also offers sufficient power for the analysis of specific questions in individual subgroups. A total of 10,000 persons are to be interviewed (2,000 in the panel).
The main topics of the planned analyses are
- dynamic relationships between work and health,
- influence of socioemotional exposure factors on health,
- predictors of exit from work,
- predictors and effects of occupational transitions and
- effects of digitisation.
In order to address these issues, the survey will be slightly modified. Due to the high data quality, S-MGA is not only of great interest for science, but also of relevance for research-based policy advice as well as for practical target groups such as company physicians and health insurance funds.