Three Essays on Mental Illness at Work

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dc.contributor.advisorWeinhardt, Justin
dc.contributor.advisorTurner, Nick
dc.contributor.authorDumaisnil, Aidan
dc.contributor.committeememberHershcovis, Sandy
dc.contributor.committeememberWeatherhead, Julie
dc.contributor.committeememberSzeto, Andrew
dc.contributor.committeememberDay, Arla
dc.date2022-11
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-05T13:54:08Z
dc.date.available2022-08-05T13:54:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-20
dc.description.abstractAlthough there is growing interest in mental health from governmental agencies, employees, and workplaces, Follmer and Jones’ (2018) call for additional research on mental illness suggests that this area of research remains understudied. This dissertation explores mental illness at work in the context of PTSD, leader mental health, and the impact of occupational depression on planning, activation, and performance. After a short overview of mental illness at work, Chapter 2 explores workplace stressors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through a systematic review and meta-analysis of 85 studies, finding that workplace job demands, exposure to violence, sexual harassment, bullying, and injury are all positively related to PTSD symptomology. Additional moderator analysis suggests that the measurement of PTSD and employee occupational group affect the relationship between workplace stressors and PTSD symptoms. Chapter 3 investigates leader mental health, providing a comprehensive review of the 33 articles on leader mental health. Folk beliefs of leadership suggest that leaders should have good mental health: they have high job control, are compensated more, enjoy higher socioeconomic status, less bullying, and less injustice. However, despite these positive work aspects, there are organizational factors that would suggest that leaders should suffer from mental health problems, such as increased demands, higher workload and responsibility, work-family and family-work conflict, and the inability to detach from work. This systematic review suggests that leaders are not immune to mental health problems: they experience burnout, stress, depression, anxiety, mental distress, and sleep problems due to a variety of personal and situational factors. Finally, Chapter 4 tests a multilevel model of planning, exploring the impact of occupational depression and interruptions on planning, activation, and performance, where time management planning and contingent planning lead to activation, occupational depression and interruptions moderate those relationships, and activation ultimately leads to performance. Using an experiment combined with experience sampling methods, the results suggest slightly different results at the between-person and within-person levels. However, the consistent finding at both levels was that occupational depression moderates the relationship between time management planning and activation, and between contingent planning and activation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDumaisnil, A. (2022). Three Essays on Mental Illness at Work (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114916
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39965
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyHaskayne School of Businessen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectmental illnessen_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.subjectleadershipen_US
dc.subjectplanningen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Businessen_US
dc.titleThree Essays on Mental Illness at Worken_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineBusiness, Haskayne School of Businessen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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