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- The study explores how various personal and workplace factors relate to the health of British civil servants experiencing job insecurity.
- Significant links were found between job insecurity and poor health indicators, including self-rated health and psychiatric issues.
- Factors like pessimism, social support, and job satisfaction contributed to explaining a large percentage of the health impacts of job insecurity, particularly among women.
Article Abstract
This paper examines the potential of demographic, personal, material and behavioural characteristics, other psychosocial features of the work environment and job satisfaction to explain associations between self-reported job insecurity and health in a longitudinal study of British white-collar civil servants. Strong associations were found between self-reported job insecurity and both poor self-rated health and minor psychiatric morbidity. After adjustment for age, employment grade and health during a prior phase of secure employment, pessimism, heightened vigilance, primary deprivation, financial security, social support and job satisfaction explained 68% of the association between job insecurity and self-rated health in women, and 36% in men. With the addition of job control, these factors explained 60% of the association between job insecurity and minor psychiatric morbidity, and just over 80% of the association with depression in both sexes.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.006 | DOI Listing |
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