Involuntary fulland part-time work: employees' mental health and the role of familyand work-related resources

Introduction: Empirical evidence is inconsistent whether part-time or full-time work is more beneficial to the mental health. One explanation for contradictory findings is that researchers usually do not take the working hour preferences of workers into account. The objective of this study was to investigate whetherinvoluntary part-time and involuntary full-time work are associated with a deterioration of mental health two-years later, on the one hand, and to examine whether familyand work-related resources buffer this association, on the other hand. Methods: Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Pan…