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important predictor of a number of psychological symptoms such as mild
depression (dooley, rook, & catalano, 1987). Workers exposed to chronic
job insecurity are more likely to report minor psychiatric symptoms than
those with secure jobs. Moreover, relative to workers who remained in
secure employment, self-reported morbidity was elevated among
workers who lost job security. Workers exposed to chronic job insecurity
had the highest self-reported morbidity, indicating that job insecurity acts
as a chronic stressor. among those who regained job security, adverse
effects, particularly in the psychological sphere, were not completely
reversed by removal of this threat (ferrie, shipley, smith, stansfeld, &
Marmot, 2002). The impact of job insecurity on mental wellbeing has also
been described in the context of currently industrialising countries
(edimansyah et al., 2008). downsizing, which can lead to increased job
insecurity, has also been shown to be a risk to workers’ health. Thus, a
significant linear relation has been observed between the level of
downsizing and long periods of sick leave attributable to musculoskeletal
disorders and trauma (Vahtera, Kivimäki, & Pentti, 1997). self-reported
health status deteriorates among workers anticipating a job change or
loss in a group of middle-aged, white-collar civil servants (ferrie,
shipley, Marmot, stansfeld, & smith, 1995). overall, research on selfreported
job insecurity and workplace closure presents consistent
evidence of their significant adverse effects on self-reported physical
and mental health (Marmot, ferrie, newman, & stansfeld, 2001); these
effects may be higher among people with poor labour market chances
(rugulies, aust, Burr, & Bültmann, 2008). finally, there is also some
evidence of the association between self-reported job insecurity and
subclinical atherosclerosis (Muntaner et al., 1998).
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psychological health and among younger adults (Matthews, Manor, & Beijing (China).
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& Marmot, 2003). in the united states, non-standard forms of employment
(“contingent workers”) are concentrated among women, black and
hispanic people and low-income families (cummings & Kreiss, 2008).
although job insecurity and temporary employment have been
shown to be good predictors of the health of precarious employees,
they only provide a partial picture of new employment relations. They
are insufficient for explaining the mechanisms by which new work
arrangements are affecting the health of a growing flexible
workforce. for example, self-perceived job insecurity may not be
able to capture the impact of structural determinants of employment
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