Working in gender-dominated occupations and depressive symptoms: findings from the two age cohorts of the lidA study

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 5 Results of OLS regression analysis with depressive symptoms as dependent variable and interaction effects—men. (Source: lidA, wave 1, 2011; own calculations)

Men ^a (N = 2452)	7c	8c	9c	10c
Occupational gender segregation
Male-dominated	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Integrated	0.015	0.010	0.007	0.009
Female-dominated	− 0.021	− 0.021	− 0.020	− 0.020
Work stress
Effort-reward ratio	0.208***	0.192***	0.191***	0.156***
Overcommitment	0.217***	0.219***	0.216***	0.224***
Work-family conflict	0.170***	0.170***	0.180***	0.217***
Interactions
Male-dominated x Effort-reward ratio	Ref.
Integrated x Effort-reward ratio	− 0.011
Female-dominated x Effort-reward ratio	− 0.048**
Male-dominated x Overcommitment		Ref.
Integrated x Overcommitment		0.004
Female-dominated x Overcommitment		− 0.030
Male-dominated x Work-family conflict			Ref.
Integrated x Work-family conflict			− 0.016
Female-dominated x Work-family conflict			0.011
Effort-reward ratio x Overcommitment				0.061†
R²	0.222	0.220	0.220	0.222

^aAll models are adjusted for cohort affiliation. Continuous variables are centred
Beta coefficients, †p < 0.1; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001, robust standard errors