The relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being in Korean wage workers through the Cantril ladder Scale
| Autor: | Jong Han Leem, Youna Won, Hwan-Cheol Kim, Hyung Doo Kim, Hyeonwoo Ju, Go Choi, Sung Wook Jang, Shin Goo Park, Hyun-Suk Jang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Panel survey
Precarious employment Korea media_common.quotation_subject Precarious Employment Confounding Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Wage KOWEPS 030210 environmental & occupational health 03 medical and health sciences Subjective well-being 0302 clinical medicine Scale (social sciences) Wage workers Linear regression Cantril ladder scale Demographic economics 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology Welfare media_common Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| ISSN: | 2052-4374 |
| Popis: | Background The global labor market is moving towards increasing job instability. Relatively few studies have examined the relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being using quantitative scales. We evaluated the association between wage workers' employment status and their subjective well-being through the Cantril ladder scale using Korean Welfare Panel Survey data (KOWEPS). Methods This study used KOWEPS data. A total of 4,423 wage workers were divided into permanently employed workers, temporarily employed workers and daily employed workers. The relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being was analyzed by multiple linear regression adjusted for potential confounding factors. Results The more unstable the employment status, the lower the subjective well-being, which can be expressed by the Cantril ladder scale. The mean score of both temporarily employed and daily employed workers were statistically significantly lower (B = -0.454, p < 0.001; B = -0.994, p < 0.001, respectively) than permanently employed workers. This appeared to be the same when occupational and sociodemographic factors were adjusted (B = -0.153, p = 0.002 for temporarily employed, B = -0.610, p < 0.001 for daily employed). Conclusions The more unstable the employment status, the lower the subjective well-being score according to the Cantril ladder scale. |
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