Job Insecurity and Mental Well-Being in Finland, Norway, and Sweden

Vulkan, Patrik; Saloniemi, Antti; Svalund, Jørgen; Väisänen, Anna

doi:10.19154/njwls.v5i2.4792

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“…Several processes related to the labor market influence the worker's opportunities -representing increase or decrease of control -for positioning himself or herself according to own preferences. Examples of such constantly ongoing processes influencing opportunities for control are stratification into core and peripheral workers, threats of unemployment, change in employment levels, new organizational paradigms, and organizational downsizing as a tool for restructuring the workplace (Ferrie et al 2008;Vahtera & Virtanen 2013;Vulkan et al 2015).…”

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Associations Between Being ‘Locked-In’ and Health – An Epidemiological Study

Aronsson

Taloyan

Westerlund

et al. 2019

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Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between an individual’s level of perceived control over labor market position (locked-in and not locked-in) and self-rated health and psychological well-being.Methods. A representative sample (n = 11,675) of the working population in southern Sweden responded to a questionnaire.Results. Sixty-seven percent of the respondents worked in their preferred workplace and occupation. Nineteen percent reported being in a nonpreferred workplace and nonpreferred occupation (double locked-in). Twenty-three percent reported suboptimal health compared with 31% among the double locked-in. The risk of suboptimal health was elevated in all locked-in groups also after adjustment for background variables and job strain. In the double locked-in group, the fully adjusted odds ratio for suboptimal health was 1.72 (95% confidence interval 1.49–1.99) and for suboptimal psychological well-being 2.17 (95% confidence inter val 1.84–2.56). Odds ratio for the other locked-in groups was lower but still statistically significant.Conclusions. Being at a nonpreferred work-place or occupation was associated with impaired health.

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Associations Between Being ‘Locked-In’ and Health – An Epidemiological Study

Aronsson

Taloyan

Westerlund

et al. 2019

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“…153-154, 171;Bergold & Vedin, 2015, p. 10;Håkansson, 2001, p. 71). Comparative research in Finland, Norway, and Sweden shows that job, employment, and income insecurity all are related to mental health (Vulkan et al, 2015). The findings in this study reveal the ways in which such working conditions aggravate the conflict between working life and family life, and show that a crucial dimension of this is that they make it difficult to act in accordance with ethical ideals about good mothering.…”

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Between Money and Love: Work-family Conflict Among Swedish Low-income Single Mothers

Roman

2017

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KeywoRds Control over work / economic resources / low-income and working-class Swedish single mothers / relative deprivation / structural ambivalence / work-family reconciliation Introduction It has been noted that the kinds of state support that single mothers receive can be used as a measure of the position of women more generally (Hobson, 1994, p. 176). The Nordic countries, where family policies emphasize both gender equality and equality in children's living conditions regardless of family form, are frequently cited as good examples. Universal publicly financed childcare has enabled single mothers to support themselves and their children by taking up paid jobs. This in turn has kept poverty rates down (Esping-Anderson, 2016, p. 82; Meagher & Szebehely, 2012, pp. 98-102). Surprisingly, little is known, however, about how single mothers cope with being both primary breadwinners and carers. Survey data indicate that work-family conflict and financial stress are the strongest predictors of subjective well-being for single mothers in Scandinavia (Bull & Mettelmark, 2009), but research on work-family reconciliation has mostly focused on dual-earner families. This is also the case internationally (Ciabattari, 2007;Gibson, 2012; Kröger, 2009).The present study adds to previous research by exploring work-family reconciliation among low-income and working-class single mothers in Sweden.1 It is particularly warranted to focus on low-income and working-class single mothers because international 1 You can find this text and its DOI at https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/index. 2

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“…In another study conducted by Cheng and her colleague in Great Britain, it was shown that occupational prestige was significantly associated with high mental wellbeing ( 39 ). Various studies around the world have examined the significance of employment, job quality, job security, working capacity, workplace stress and working environment on PMH ( 31 , 40 – 43 ). Another important PMH need prioritized at the differential exposure level is providing proper working conditions.…”

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Priorities of positive mental health promotion in the Iranian community: a qualitative study

Eftekhari¹,

Mirabzadeh²,

Falahat³

et al. 2018

Electron Physician

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BackgroundPositive Mental Health (PMH) enables people to cope with the common stresses of life and adversity to achieve their full potential and humanity. In many communities, promoting PMH via prioritized interventions has been considered as a key component of public health policies to optimize mental well-being.ObjectiveTo set the priorities of interventional programs of Iranian PMH promotion according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Priority Public Health Condition (PPHC) analytical framework.MethodsThis qualitative study was implemented in 2017 in Tehran, Iran and had two main phases. In a qualitative needs-assessment phase, needs of the community’s PMH were collected through eight focus group discussions with a general population aged 30 to 60 years-old. In a priority-setting phase, the priorities of PMH were extracted through an expert panel consisting of mental health professionals and policy makers. Data gathering was implemented based on purposeful sampling according to inclusion criteria. Data were analyzed based on directional content analysis using Dedoose software version 7.6.6.ResultsFifty-one people and ten mental health professionals and policymakers participated in this study. The process of data analyzing, categorized PMH needs in 4 main categories, 15 subcategories and 46 codes. The four categories were financial security, social security, healthy lifestyle and promoting psychological factors. In the expert panel, first, the indicators of PMH priority setting were determined and then based on the priority public health condition analytical framework of the World Health Organization, the most important of PMH priority in each level was indicated as “creating job positions” in socioeconomic level, “providing proper working conditions” in differential exposure, “promoting practical life skills training” in the differential vulnerability, “easy and affordable access to mental health services” in differential healthcare outcome.ConclusionAppropriate policymaking and regulation at national level regarding employment, promoting working conditions, and reducing unemployment, promote community PMH as well as expanding accessible and affordable mental health services in the national healthcare system and empowering the community through providing practical life skill courses.

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Job Insecurity and Mental Well-Being in Finland, Norway, and Sweden

Abstract: This article describes how the flexicurity arrangement of low job security KEY WORDSFlexicurity / job insecurity / mental well-being / employment security / income security / cognitive and affective insecurity

Cited by 15 publications

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Associations Between Being ‘Locked-In’ and Health – An Epidemiological Study

Associations Between Being ‘Locked-In’ and Health – An Epidemiological Study

Between Money and Love: Work-family Conflict Among Swedish Low-income Single Mothers

Priorities of positive mental health promotion in the Iranian community: a qualitative study

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