Publications
Peer-reviewed scholarship from the WorkHealthLab. Filter by project, search by keyword, or sort to explore.
Showing 73 of 73 publications
The Bad Side of a Good Economy: How Perceptions of the Economy Moderate the Relationship between Financial Strain and Powerlessness
Jiarui (Bruce) Liang, Alexander Wilson, Scott Schieman
Shows that perceiving the economy as poor amplifies the link between financial strain and powerlessness, while economic optimism buffers it.
Is Multitasking a Crossover Stressor? The Spillover and Crossover Dynamics of Spousal Work-family Multitasking and Its Link to Psychological Distress
Philip Badawy
Demonstrates that a partner's work-family multitasking spills across the household to elevate the other spouse's psychological distress.
It's Not You, It's the Market: When Satisfied Workers Contemplate Quitting
Scott Schieman, Alexander Wilson, & Paul Glavin
Finds turnover intentions can be driven by broader labor market sentiments independent of job quality.
The Job Satisfaction Paradox: Pluralistic Ignorance and the Myth of the "Unhappy Worker"
Paul Glavin & Scott Schieman
Identifies pluralistic ignorance where satisfied workers mistakenly believe most others are dissatisfied.
Voiceless at Work: Decision-Making Participation, Subjective Power, and Mental Health in a Pandemic
Atsushi Narisada & Scott Schieman
Reveals that lack of organizational voice erodes subjective power and well-being during crises.
Working from home and role blurring: the effects of job pressure, organizational support, and caregiving responsibilities
Deniz Yücel, Philip J. Badawy, & Scott Schieman
Examines how job pressure, organizational support, and caregiving responsibilities jointly shape role blurring among workers who work from home.
A Social Price to the Rising Cost of Living? The Bidirectional Relationship between Inflation and Trust
Cary Wu, Alex Bierman, & Scott Schieman
Reveals that perceptions of inflation erode generalized social trust.
From flexibility to unending availability: Platform workers' experiences of work–family conflict
Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman, & Alex Bierman
Finds platform work associated with greater work-family conflict.
Private Eyes, They See Your Every Move: Workplace Surveillance and Worker Well-Being
Paul Glavin, Alex Bierman, & Scott Schieman
Analyzes health impacts of digital surveillance, finding perceived monitoring increases distress.
A Forced Vacation? The Stress of Being Temporarily Laid Off During a Pandemic
Scott Schieman, Quan Mai, Philip J. Badawy, & Ryu Won Kang
Finds temporarily laid-off workers initially reported less distress than those still working.
Divine Compensation? Gender, Religiosity, and the Link Between Feeling Underpaid and Psychological Distress
Laura Upenieks, Scott Schieman
Finds that prayer and perceived divine control buffer the distress of feeling underpaid, with stronger protective effects for women.
Does Religiosity Buffer the Adverse Mental Health Effects of Work-Family Strain?
Laura Upenieks, Scott Schieman, & Christopher G. Ellison
Assesses if religious attendance buffers the effects of work-family conflict.
Gender, Work, and the Family's Morning Rush Hour
Casey Scheibling, Marisa Young, Melissa A. Milkie, & Scott Schieman
Focuses on the "morning rush" as a gendered domestic stressor for dual-earner parents.
Mother-Father Parity in Work-Family Conflict? The Importance of Selection Effects and Nonresponse Bias
Marisa Young, Melissa A. Milkie, & Scott Schieman
Re-evaluates gender differences in work-family conflict levels.
A protective rung on the ladder? How past and current social status shaped changes in health during COVID-19
Laura Upenieks, Scott Schieman, & R. Meiorin
Finds lower current status predicts declining health, while upward mobility provides protection.
Dependency and Hardship in the Gig Economy: The Mental Health Consequences of Platform Work
Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman
Reveals that workers dependent on gig platforms report worse mental health than wage workers, the self-employed, and secondary platform workers.
Did perceptions of supportive work–life culture change during the COVID‐19 pandemic?
Scott Schieman, Philip Badawy, Daniel Hill
Shows that perceptions of supportive work-life culture improved during the pandemic, especially for parents and remote workers.
Jitters on the Eve of the Great Recession: Is the Belief in Divine Control a Protective Resource?
Laura Upenieks, Scott Schieman, & Alex Bierman
Shows belief in divine control buffered distress from job insecurity.
Not Just about the Money: Which Job Qualities Compensate for Unjust Pay?
Atsushi Narisada, Scott Schieman
Identifies job support, control, challenge, and advancement opportunities as rewards that soften the dissatisfaction of feeling underpaid.
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19
Cary Wu, Alex Bierman, & Scott Schieman
Demonstrates the initial "crisis-to-solidarity" trust boost was short-lived.
Unequal Upsides? The Status-Based Inequalities in the Relationship Between Schedule Control and Job Pressure
Philip J Badawy
Finds the stress-relieving benefits of schedule control accrue unequally, favoring higher-status workers over those who need it most.
What Happens at Home Does Not Stay at Home: Family-to-Work Conflict and the Link Between Relationship Strains and Quality
Lei Chai, Scott Schieman
Demonstrates that family-to-work conflict carries home-based relationship strains into reduced job quality and well-being.
A less objectionable greed? Work-life conflict and unjust pay during a pandemic
Scott Schieman, Atsushi Narisada
Shows that work-life conflict during the pandemic intensified the distress of perceived unjust pay rather than rendering it more tolerable.
Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?
Alex Bierman, Laura Upenieks, Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman
Finds that accumulating economic hardship during COVID-19 worsened health primarily through social causation rather than health selection.
Controlling or Channeling Demands? How Schedule Control Influences the Link Between Job Pressure and the Work-Family Interface
Philip J. Badawy & Scott Schieman
Finds that schedule control often fails as a buffer and instead exacerbates role blurring.
Downloaded Work, Sideloaded Work, and Financial Circumstances
Atsushi Narisada, Philip J. Badawy, & Scott Schieman
Examines what workers believe they "justly" deserve in terms of reward.
The Combined Impact of Workplace and Occupational Gender Composition on Workers' Mental Health and Employment Consequences
Ruth Repchuck & Marisa Young
Finds that perceived gender dissimilarity in feminized occupations worsens workers' mental health and employment outcomes, with gendered patterns.
With Greater Power Comes Greater Stress? Authority, Supervisor Support, and Work-Family Strains
Philip J. Badawy & Scott Schieman
Investigates how job authority relates to work-to-family conflict.
Work-Life Conflict During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Scott Schieman, Philip J. Badawy, Melissa A. Milkie, & Alex Bierman
Reveals remote work burdened parents while providing a conflict dividend for others.
Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy
Paul Glavin, Alex Bierman, & Scott Schieman
Identifies higher rates of loneliness among platform-based gig workers.
Control and the Health Effects of Work–Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Test of Generalized Versus Specific Stress Buffering
Philip J. Badawy & Scott Schieman
Compares the protective functions of schedule control and personal mastery.
Financial Strain and Psychological Distress: Do Strains in the Work-Family Interface Mediate the Effects?
Lei Chai, Scott Schieman, Alex Bierman
Reveals that work-to-family conflict mediates the long-run pathway from financial strain to psychological distress, while family-to-work conflict does not.
Job Pressure, the Work-Family Interface, and the Sense of Distributive Injustice
Atsushi Narisada
Shows how role blurring and job pressure shape perceptions of unfair pay.
Multiple Jobs: The Prevalence, Intensity, and Determinants of Multiple Jobholding in Canada
Paul Glavin
Finds nearly 20% of Canadian workers hold multiple jobs—three times higher than official estimates.
Multiple jobs? The prevalence, intensity and determinants of multiple jobholding in Canada
Paul Glavin
Finds nearly 20% of Canadian workers hold multiple jobs—three times higher than official Statistics Canada estimates.
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alex Bierman & Scott Schieman
Shows how isolation and community distrust surged as drivers of distress.
Social Estrangement and Psychological Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alex Bierman, Scott Schieman
Documents that social estrangement rose during COVID-19 and amplified pandemic-era psychological distress.
Technological Tethering, Digital Natives, and Challenges in the Work–Family Interface
Andrew D. Nevin, Scott Schieman
Shows that digital natives are no better than older cohorts at managing the work-to-family conflict generated by after-hours job contact.
The Status Dynamics of Role Blurring in the Time of COVID-19
Scott Schieman & Philip J. Badawy
Analyzes how the pandemic transformed role blurring into a generalized stressor.
Underpaid Boss: Gender, Job Authority, and the Association Between Underreward and Depression
Scott Schieman, Catherine J. Taylor, Atsushi Narisada, & Tetyana Pudrovska
Finds perceived underpayment associated with depression among women in authority.
When Family Calls: How Gender, Money, and Care Shape the Relationship between Family Contact and Family-to-Work Conflict
Philip J. Badawy & Scott Schieman
Explores how family contact during work hours impacts professional role functioning.
Precarious versus Entrepreneurial Origins of the Recently Self‐Employed: Work and Family Determinants of Canadians’ Self‐Employment Transitions
Paul Glavin, Tomislav Filipovic, Mark van der Maas
Distinguishes precarious from entrepreneurial entries into self-employment, finding nonprofessional entrants face lower incomes and greater hardship.
Relative deprivation in context: How contextual status homogeneity shapes the relationship between disadvantaged social status and health
Xiaozhao Yousef Yang, Anning Hu, Scott Schieman
Reveals that the health costs of disadvantaged status grow sharper in contexts where surrounding peers share higher status.
Time Deficits with Children: The Link to Parents' Mental and Physical Health
Melissa A. Milkie, Kei Nomaguchi, & Scott Schieman
Reveals nearly half of Canadian parents perceive significant time deficits with their children.
Financial circumstances, mastery, and mental health
Jonathan Koltai, Alex Bierman, & Scott Schieman
Shows perceived financial strain is a more potent predictor of distress than income.
Getting the Hours You Want in the Preretirement Years: Work Hour Preferences and Mismatch Among Older Canadian Workers
Michelle Pannor Silver, Jason Settels, Markus H Schafer, Scott Schieman
Finds over a third of older Canadian workers want fewer hours, and that work-hour mismatch predicts later workforce exits.
Scaling Back and Finding Flexibility: Gender Differences in Parents' Strategies to Manage Work–Family Conflict
Marisa Young & Scott Schieman
Identifies adaptive strategies parents use to navigate role tension.
The Status–Health Paradox: Organizational Context, Stress Exposure, and Well-being in the Legal Profession
Jonathan Koltai, Scott Schieman, Ronit Dinovitzer
Documents a status-health paradox: higher-status lawyers in large firms report more depression and worse health than their lower-status peers.
Who Helps with Homework? Parenting Inequality and Relationship Quality
Scott Schieman, Leah Ruppanner, & Melissa A. Milkie
Finds that mothers perform significantly more homework-related tasks.
An Occupational Portrait of Emotional Labor Requirements and Their Health Consequences for Workers
Diana Singh, Paul Glavin
Finds that occupational emotional labor demands are tied to elevated blood pressure even when psychological distress is unaffected.
Insecure People in Insecure Places: The Influence of Regional Unemployment on Workers’ Reactions to the Threat of Job Loss
Paul Glavin, Marisa Young
Shows that high regional unemployment magnifies—rather than normalizes—the distress of workers facing the threat of job loss.
Underpaid but Satisfied: The Protective Functions of Security
Atsushi Narisada & Scott Schieman
Highlights job security as a psychological buffer against perceived low pay.
Perceived Job Insecurity and Health: Do Duration and Timing Matter?
Paul Glavin
Demonstrates that prolonged job insecurity erodes health, with middle-aged and older workers paying the steepest price.
The Pressure-Status Nexus and Blurred Work–Family Boundaries
Scott Schieman, Paul Glavin
Identifies a pressure-status nexus where job pressure most strongly blurs work-family boundaries among the well educated, professionals, and high-earning men.
The Psychological Price of High Pressure on the Job: When Does Buffering Work?
Jonathan Koltai, Scott Schieman
Examines when job resources successfully buffer the psychological costs of high job pressure—and when they fail.
Control in the Face of Uncertainty: Is Job Insecurity a Challenge to the Mental Health Benefits of Control Beliefs?
Paul Glavin & Scott Schieman
Tests whether benefits of personal control persist during job insecurity.
In Control or Fatalistically Ruled? The Sense of Mastery among Working Canadians
Scott Schieman & Atsushi Narisada
Measures how job resources contribute to the sense of personal mastery.
Not Ideal: The Association Between Working Anything but Full Time and Perceived Unfair Treatment
Julie A. Kmec, Lindsey Trimble O’Connor, Scott Schieman
Finds that mothers working anything but full time perceive greater unfair treatment than otherwise comparable workers without children.
The Costs of Caring: Caregiver Strain and Work-Family Conflict Among Canadian Workers
Paul Glavin, Amanda Peters
Examines how caregiving strain among Canadian workers spills into work-family conflict.
Who Engages in Work–Family Multitasking? A Study of Canadian and American Workers
Scott Schieman, Marisa Young
Investigates the social distribution of work-family multitasking across Canadian and American workers.
Are communications about work outside regular working hours associated with work-to-family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems?
Scott Schieman, Marisa C. Young
Shows that after-hours work communications are linked to higher work-to-family conflict, psychological distress, and sleep problems.
The Impact of Job Insecurity and Job Degradation on the Sense of Personal Control
Paul Glavin
Demonstrates that prolonged job insecurity erodes the sense of personal control, with older workers experiencing the sharpest declines.
The Rewards of Authority in the Workplace: Do Gender and Age Matter?
Scott Schieman, Markus H. Schafer, Mitchell McIvor
Finds that workplace authority delivers autonomy, challenge, and income—but men reap larger gains from authority than women do.
When Hard Times Take a Toll
Marisa Young, Scott Schieman
Reveals that family-to-work conflict carries economic hardship and negative life events into heightened psychological distress.
Boundary-Spanning Work Demands and Their Consequences for Guilt and Psychological Distress
Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman, & Sarah Reid
Concludes after-hours work contact is a potent source of guilt and distress.
Work–Family Role Blurring and Work–Family Conflict
Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman
Shows that work-family role blurring drives work-to-family conflict, with the link strongest among workers exposed to heavy job demands.
Economic Hardship and Family-to-Work Conflict: The Importance of Gender and Work Conditions
Scott Schieman, Marisa Young
Examines how gender and working conditions shape the pathway from economic hardship to family-to-work conflict.
Interpersonal Context at Work and the Frequency, Appraisal, and Consequences of Boundary-Spanning Demands
Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman
Finds that workplace social support reduces work-to-family conflict while interpersonal conflict and after-hours contact intensify it.
Is There a Downside to Schedule Control for the Work-Family Interface?
Scott Schieman, Marisa Young
Reveals that schedule control raises work-family multitasking and home-based work, partially offsetting its conflict-reducing benefits.
Job authority and health: Unraveling the competing suppression and explanatory influences
Scott Schieman & Sarah Reid
Identifies interpersonal conflict as a suppressive factor.
When Work Interferes with Life: Work-Nonwork Interference and the Influence of Work-Related Demands and Resources
Scott Schieman, Paul Glavin, Melissa A. Milkie
Documents a stress of higher status: workers with greater authority, demands, and resources report more work interfering with nonwork life.
Job Authority and Interpersonal Conflict in the Workplace
Scott Schieman & Sarah Reid
Identifies a link between authority and workplace conflict.
Relational Demography in the Workplace and Health: An Analysis of Gender and the Subordinate–Superordinate Role-Set
Scott Schieman, Taralyn Mcmullen
Shows that the gender composition of supervisory role-sets shapes worker mental and physical health in ways that diverge for men and women.