It is long-recognized that occupational demands and environment may contribute to poor mental health. In 1976, Cooper and Marshall proposed the Occupational Stress Model to demonstrate the potentially harmful effects of stress on health.1 The model posits sources of stress at work, which include working conditions, role ambiguity and conflict, career development, and climate, when coupled with individual characteristics and extra-organizational sources of stress, are associated with physical and mental disease. Early agricultural safety and health researchers recognized the potential impact of occupational stress on the mental health of farmers.2–4 While there has been a somewhat consistent sprinkling of agriculture mental health research in the literature in the past 30 years, there is a renewed and growing concern for agricultural producers and workers mental health, fueled perhaps in part by unfavorable market conditions, stories of farmer suicide, and the number of farm bankruptcies. The increased interest is evident in this current issue of the Journal of Agromedicine, which includes six articles that explore, describe, and analyze a variety of mental health experiences in agricultural populations ...
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LA - en SN - 1059-924X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1694821 ID - ref1 ER -