Subjective work-related health within low-qualified, culturally diverse workforces
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Subjektive arbeitsbezogene Gesundheit in un- und angelernten, kulturell diversen Belegschaften
To date, research on subjective work-related health within low-qualified, culturally diverse workforces is sparse. Accordingly, psychological measures have hardly been validated for culture-sensitive application within this specific target group. Thirty-four interviews of low-qualified workers in four companies (65 % immigrants) were qualitatively analyzed. The interviewees showed complex health beliefs and the attributions of typical working conditions to poor health. Agitation and exhaustion and positive mood and energy were predominant states of impaired and positive well-being at work, respectively. Assigning low-qualified workers to six cultural clusters revealed cultural peculiarities in subjective health beliefs and attributions of causes to impaired well-being. The results form the basis for future studies to assess impaired and positive, work-related well-being among low-qualified workers and across diverse cultures within these workforces.