Association between work-related health problems and job insecurity in permanent and temporary employees
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Association between work-related health problems and job insecurity in permanent and temporary employees Won-Wook Lee1, Jae-Bum Park2*, Kyoung-Bok Min2, Kyung-Jong Lee2 and Min-Su Kim1
Abstract Objectives: This research was conducted with an aim of determining the correlation between job insecurity and an employee’s work-related health problems among permanent and temporary workers. Methods: Using the data from the First Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2006, a total of 7,071 workers, excluding employers and the self-employed, were analyzed. Work-related health problems were categorized as backache, headache, abdominal pain, muscular pain, stress, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety or depression. Each problem was then analyzed for its relationship to job insecurity through logistic regression analysis. Results: Among the 7,071 workers, 5,294 (74.9%) were permanent workers and 1,777 (25.1%) were temporary workers. For the permanent workers, presence of high or moderate job insecurity appeared more closely linked to backache, headache, abdominal pain, muscular pain, stress, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and depression compared to absence of job insecurity. However, for the temporary workers, only depression appeared to be associated with the presence of high job insecurity. Conclusion: The study showed that the presence of job insecurity is correlated with work-related health problems. The deleterious effects of job insecurity appeared to be stronger in permanent than temporary workers. Additional research should investigate ways to effectively reduce job insecurity. Keywords: Job insecurity, Work-related health problems, Permanent workers, Temporary workers, Korean working conditions survey
Introduction As a type of occupational stress, job insecurity has been defined in a number of ways, from concerns about maintaining a current job or work position, fear of total loss of any type of employment, to a degree of concern about the extent of job security [1-3]. All of these varying definitions are based upon the uncertain future and the individual experiences of workers [4]. Job insecurity, in effect, is a perception, and is different from the threat of losing one's job or the actual dismissal from the employment because, employees are apt to experience this with or without the true risk of such losses [3]. Even though it is generally known that temporary employees * Correspondence: [email protected] 2 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
experience more job insecurity than do permanent ones, it is always possible for permanent employees, who are less likely to actually be dismissed from work, to perceive job insecurity as a threat throughout their employment just as temporary employees do, and because more employees are likely to experience such threat than actually experience dismissals, job insecurity has become an important occupational
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