Precarious work, job stress, and health-related quality of life.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recent technological and work organization changes have resulted in an increased prevalence of nonstandard work arrangement types. One of the consequences has been an increased prevalence of precarious work. Our objective was to generate a scale to measure work precariousness in the United States and examine the associations between this study precariousness scale with job stress, unhealthy days, and days with activity limitations among US workers from 2002 to 2014, to determine if precarious work adversely affects worker health.

Methods

Our scale was inspired by the Employment Precariousness Scale that measures work precariousness reported by salaried workers and developed for the US workforce. We used pooled cross-sectional data from 22 representative items from

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904539 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature