Employment insecurity and mental health during the economic recession: An analysis of the young adult labour force in Italy

Fiori, Francesca; Rinesi, Francesca; Spizzichino, Daniele; Giorgio, Ginevra Di

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.02.010

Cited by 55 publications

(59 citation statements)

References 37 publications

(34 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The other exposed pathways are in line with those exposed in the introduction and in previous reviews [4,12]. First, the manifest and latent functions deprivation model, specifically pointing out that precarious employment implies fewer financial rewards [59,[61][62][63], and a weakening of the employment latent functions, such as social integration, social and work status and identity, and self-fulfillment [27, [63][64][65]. Second, the higher exposition of precarious employees to harmful working conditions.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…It explains the gender differences in mental health due to precarious employment in relation to the traditional roles of men and women regarding work and family: men's life is more centered around paid work because they earn the family wage, while women do domestic and care labor. Thus, men's mental health depends more on their situation on the labor market [14,17,24,32,38,59,60]. This could be especially relevant in the contexts where the traditional family model is still dominant [15,28,38].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Utzet¹,

Valero²,

Mosquera³

et al. 2020

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Precarious employment has expanded during the last decades, but there is no full consensus on its definition, and its impact on mental health is not completely understood. The relevance of several micro-and macro-level variables in the association between precarious employment and mental health has not been fully addressed. This review has 2 aims: to identify scientific evidence on the relationship between various dimensions of precarious employment and mental health, and to synthesize the inclusion of a gender-sensitive perspective, context variables, workers' household variables, and the discussion of causal mechanisms underlying the association. The literature was searched in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science and PsycINFO including articles dated 2010-May 2018. A minimum of 2 independent reviewers assessed each article regarding quality and eligibility criteria. The search retrieved 1522 papers, of which 54 (corresponding to 53 studies) met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies analyzing job insecurity, temporariness and multidimensional approaches reported a significant association. Nevertheless, results for working time arrangements and downsizing are inconclusive. Around half of the studies included sex-stratified analyses and formulated contradictory conclusions. Overall, 7 studies considered workers' household situation and only 3 delivered significant results, and 16 described some of the potential pathways. There is evidence of an association between various precarious employment approaches and mental health problems. Further research (preferably longitudinal) should aim to discuss theoretical models explaining the pathways between precarious employment and mental health, including a gender-sensitive perspective, and integrating several levels of individual and contextual variables.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Utzet¹,

Valero²,

Mosquera³

et al. 2020

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…11.3 ± 2,8 10.1 ± 3.1 < 0.001 11.5 ± 2.6 10.8 ± 3.0 0.009 Coworker support (score) 11.7 ± 2.0 10.7 ± 2.3 < 0.001 11.6 ± 2.1 11.0 ± 2.3 0.003 higher odds of depressive symptoms (Virtanen et al 2005;Fiori et al 2016;Kim et al 2016), which is not consistent with ours. One explanation for the different conclusions would be that subjects of our study were employees of care service facilities and different from nationally representative samples of other studies.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 73%

“…As a matter of concern, some studies reported that precarious employment was associated with increased depressive symptoms or depression (Virtanen et al 2005;QuesnelVallée et al 2010;Ervasti et al 2014;Fiori et al 2016;Kim et al 2016), and other demonstrated higher psychological morbidity among precarious workers compared with permanent workers (Kim et al 2006;Kim et al 2016); for instance, more days of work under temporary contract as well as frequent changes in temporary contract significantly increased the probability of developing mental health problems that need to be medically treated (Moscone et al 2016). Is this really correct?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarious Employment Is Not Associated with Increased Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study in Care Service Workers of Japan

Tanaka

Maeda

Fushimi

et al. 2017

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Some epidemiological studies with a large number of subjects, like a national health study, reported that precarious employment was associated with increased depressive symptoms, but this hypothesis may not be applicable to precarious workers of all industry types. We examined the association between precarious employment and depressive symptoms in light of work-related stress in care work environments. The selfadministered questionnaire, composed of the Job Content Questionnaire based on the demand-controlsupport model and the Center of Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), was distributed, and a total of 1,338 permanent and 531 precarious employees responded to it with complete forms. In the precarious employees, scores of CES-D, job demand and job control were lower and supervisor support score was higher compared with the permanent employees, though there was no significant difference in the proportion of CES-D score ≥16 between the two groups. Multivariate analysis with adjustment for possible confounders revealed that increased depressive symptoms were associated with low coworker support in the precarious employees and with high demand and low control at work, low support from supervisors and coworkers in the permanent employees. However, precarious employment was not significantly associated with depressive symptoms in the male or female employees. In conclusion, our results do not support the above hypothesis at least in care service workers. Such a hypothesis should be verified in employees of each industry separately. Instead, coworker support within each workplace appears to be important for the preventive strategy of depression in workers including precarious employees.

show abstract

“…A recent Italian study presenting results from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of young people showed that poor mental health was strongly related to poor employment security, i.e. the causal model should acknowledge the possibility of bi-directional causation ( Fiori, Rinesi, Spizzichino & Di Giorgio, 2016 ). Moreover, the strength of the (cross-sectional) association had increased between the two assessment time points in 2005 and 2013.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market

Canivet

Aronsson

Bernhard‐Oettel

et al. 2017

SSM - Population Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Precarious employment has been associated with poor mental health. Moreover, increasing labour market precariousness may cause individuals to feel ‘locked-in’, in non-desired workplaces or occupations, out of fear of not finding a new employment. This could be experienced as a ‘loss of control’, with similar negative health consequences. It is plausible that the extent to which being in a non-desired occupation (NDO) or being in precarious employment (PE) has a negative impact on mental health differs according to age group. We tested this hypothesis using data from 2331 persons, 18–34, 35–44, and 45–54 years old, who answered questionnaires in 1999/2000, 2005, and 2010. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) were calculated for poor mental health (GHQ-12) in 2010, after exposure to NDO and PE in 1999/2000 or 2005. NDO and PE were more common in the youngest age group, and they were both associated with poor mental health. In the middle age group the impact of NDO was null, while in contrast the IRR for PE was 1.7 (95% CI: 1.3–2.3) after full adjustment. The pattern was completely the opposite in the oldest age group (adjusted IRR for NDO 1.6 (1.1–2.4) and for PE 0.9 (0.6–1.4)). The population attributable fraction of poor mental health was 14.2% and 11.6%, respectively, for NDO in the youngest and oldest age group, and 17.2% for PE in the middle age group. While the consequences of PE have been widely discussed, those of NDO have not received attention. Interventions aimed at adapting work situations for older individuals and facilitating conditions of job change in such a way as to avoid risking unemployment or precarious employment situations may lead to improved mental health in this age group.

show abstract

Employment insecurity and mental health during the economic recession: An analysis of the young adult labour force in Italy

Cited by 55 publications

References 37 publications

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Precarious Employment Is Not Associated with Increased Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study in Care Service Workers of Japan

The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About