Work-Life Strain and Emotional Distress: A Comparison of Agriculture/Forestry/Fishing and Construction/ Extraction Workers in California.

Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (AFF) and Construction and Extraction (CE) workers experience higher rates of adverse mental health outcomes than workers in other industries. Although several work-related risk factors affecting mental health have been identified in both groups, there is limited understanding of how and why these risks vary between AFF and CE workers. Guided by the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) framework, we used data originally from the California Work and Health Survey (CWHS) to investigate the association of known work-life strains and emotional distress among California A