Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men

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The Role of Job Demands and Job Resources in the Development of Emotional Exhaustion, Depression, and Anxiety Among Police Officers (2018, background): “Workers with high job demands were found to have a two-fold risk of developing generalized anxiety disorder compared to workers with low job demands (Melchior et al., 2007).”
Burnout: Moving beyond the status quo. (2017, background): “Occupational adversity has been specifically identified as a predictor of depressive symptoms and disorders in numerous studies (Melchior et al., 2007; Niedhammer, Malard, & Chastang, 2015; Schonfeld, 2001; Wang, Patten, Currie, Sareen, & Schmitz, 2012).”
Work-Related Depression among Hotel Employees (2009, background): “One of the main causes of depression is work-related stress (Melchior et al. 2007; Smith 2001; J. Wang 2005), which might stem from negative workplace climate, culture, or both (Dunnagan, Peterson, and Haynes 2001).”
Positive affectivity predicts successful and unsuccessful adaptation to stress (2013, background): “Persistent unsuccessful adaptation to stress contributes to the development of health problems such as the burnout syndrome (Bakker et al. 2000; Bellingrath et al. 2009; Melchior et al. 2007; Wang 2005).”