Development of a European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for psychosocial exposures and their association with diagnosed depression in register-based cohorts

Key Points

• To develop and assess the EuroJEM for evaluating psychosocial exposures related to depression.
• Development of the EuroJEM focusing on psychosocial factors
• Analysis of register-based cohorts
• Assessment of decision authority and job strain as key exposures
• Identified consistent associations between depression and EuroJEM-based exposures
• Job strain and decision authority showed strong links to depression
• Performance for job demands was found to be suboptimal