title: Self-reported job insecurity and health in the Whitehall II study: potential explanations of the relationship.
abstract: This paper examines the potential of demographic, personal, material and behavioural characteristics, other psychosocial features of the work environment and job satisfaction to explain associations between self-reported job insecurity and health in a longitudinal study of British white-collar civil servants. Strong associations were found between self-reported job insecurity and both poor self-rated health and minor psychiatric morbidity. After adjustment for age, employment grade and health during a prior phase of secure employment, pessimism, heightened vigilance, primary deprivation, financial security, social support and job satisfaction explained 68% of the association between job insecurity and self-rated health in women, and 36% in men. With the addition of job control, these factors explained 60% of the association between job insecurity and minor psychiatric morbidity, and just over 80% of the association with depression in both sexes.
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Health and Society and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. j.ferrie@public-health.ul.udc.sk
authors.forename: Jane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Ferrie
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Shipley
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Stansfeld
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marmot
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006077:Government Agencies; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D016014:Linear Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*