| Title: | Personality, lifestyle and job satisfaction: causal association between neuroticism and job satisfaction using Mendelian randomisation in the UK biobank cohort |
| Journal: | Translational Psychiatry |
| Published: | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32066660/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-0691-3 |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0691-3.pdf |
Publication 9090
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Abstract
Job-related stress has been associated with poor health outcomes but little is known about the causal nature of these findings. We employed Mendelian randomisation (MR) approach to investigate the causal effect of neuroticism, education, and physical activity on job satisfaction. Trait-specific genetic risk score (GRS) based on recent genome wide association studies were used as instrumental variables (IV) using the UK Biobank cohort (N = 315,536). Both single variable and multivariable MR analyses were used to determine the effect of each trait on job satisfaction. We observed a clear evidence of a causal association between neuroticism and job satisfaction. In single variable MR, one standard deviation (1 SD) higher genetically determined neuroticism score (4.07 units) was associated with −0.31 units lower job satisfaction (95% confidence interval (CI): −0.38 to −0.24; P = 9.5 × 10−20). The causal associations remained significant after performing sensitivity analyses by excluding invalid genetic variants from GRSNeuroticism (β(95%CI): −0.28(−0.35 to −0.21); P = 3.4 x 10−15). Education (0.02; −0.08 to 0.12; 0.67) and physical activity (0.08; −0.34 to 0.50; 0.70) did not show any evidence for causal association with job satisfaction. When genetic instruments for neuroticism, education and physical activity were included together, the association of neuroticism score with job satisfaction was reduced by only −0.01 units, suggesting an independent inverse causal association between neuroticism score (P = 2.7 x 10−17) and job satisfaction. Our findings show an independent causal association between neuroticism score and job satisfaction. Physically active lifestyle may help to increase job satisfaction despite presence of high neuroticism scores. Our study highlights the importance of considering the confounding effect of negative personality traits for studies on job satisfaction.</p>
6 Authors
- Gull Rukh
- Junhua Dang
- Gaia Olivo
- Diana-Maria Ciuculete
- Mathias Rask-Andersen
- Helgi Birgir Schiöth
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 25308 | Identification and evaluation of risk factors in the working environment for poor health outcomes |
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