title: Can labour contract differences in health and work-related attitudes be explained by quality of working life and job insecurity?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We hypothesise that due to a lower quality of working life and higher job insecurity, the health and work-related attitudes of temporary workers may be less positive compared to permanent workers. Therefore, we aimed to (1) examine differences between contract groups (i.e. permanent contract, temporary contract with prospect of permanent work, fixed-term contract, temporary agency contract and on-call contract) in the quality of working life, job insecurity, health and work-related attitudes and (2) investigate whether these latter contract group differences in health and work-related attitudes can be explained by differences in the quality of working life and/or job insecurity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from the Netherlands Working Conditions Survey 2008 (N = 21,639), and Hypotheses were tested using analysis of variance and cross-table analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Temporary work was associated with fewer task demands and lower autonomy and was more often passive or high-strain work, while permanent work was more often active work. Except for on-call work, temporary work was more insecure and associated with worse health and work-related attitude scores than permanent work. Finally, the quality of working life and job insecurity partly accounted for most contract differences in work-related attitudes but not in health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Especially agency workers have a lower health status and worse work-related attitudes. Job redesign measures regarding their quality of working life and job insecurity are recommended.
authors: Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. a.wagenaar@psych.ru.nl
authors: Alfred F
authors: AF
authors: Wagenaar
authors: Michiel A J
authors: MA
authors: Kompier
authors: Irene L D
authors: IL
authors: Houtman
authors: Seth
authors: S
authors: van den Bossche
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Smulders
authors: Toon W
authors: TW
authors: Taris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D032982:Contracts; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D011788:Quality of Life; D035501:Uncertainty; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult