National survey of mental health and life satisfaction of gig workers: the role of loneliness and financial precarity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the mental health and life satisfaction of those employed in the gig work and contingent work with those in full-time or part-time work and the unemployed in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore the possible mechanisms of latent and manifest benefits of employment, such as financial precarity and loneliness.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Participants

A representative sample of 17 722 employed and unemployed British adults, including 429 gig workers. People with disability, retirees and full-time students are not included in the sample.

Main outcome measures

Mental health (General Health Questionnaire-12 score) and life satisfaction (a direct question from UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)) as outcomes. Self-reported lonel

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature