The changing significance of different stressors after the announcement of bankruptcy: a longitudinal investigation with special emphasis on job insecurity
✍ Scribed by Gisela B. Mohr
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
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✦ Synopsis
The author investigates the eect of job insecurity and other job stressors on the mental health of steel workers. Levels of job stress and mental health were measured seven years before and seven months after the company at which they worked had gone into receivership, a method that can be described as a quasi-experimental ®eld study with a sample of blue-collar non-supervisory male workers. Two out of four job stressors were found to be at a lower level when the second wave of research took place. Regression analyses showed that the correlation between these job stressors and psychosomatic complaints is now lower than during the ®rst wave but that they reach the former level when job insecurity is added. Job insecurity was mainly connected to an increase in psychosomatic complaints and in anxiety. Self-esteem, depression, and irascibility showed no important relationship to job insecurity when the variables were controlled for mental health status before the onset of job insecurity. Social support, opportunities in the labor market, and duration of contract in the company are identi®ed as moderating the relation between mental health and job insecurity. One conclusion is that positive health eects due to reduction in the stress level may be oset by acute job insecurity.