title: Psychosocial and other working conditions: variation by employment arrangement in a sample of working Australians.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The evidence linking precarious employment with poor health is mixed. Self-reported occupational exposures in a population-based Australian sample were assessed to investigate the potential for differential exposure to psychosocial and other occupational hazards to contribute to such a relationship, hypothesizing that exposures are worse under more precarious employment arrangements (EA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Various psychoscial and other working conditions were modeled in relation to eight empirically derived EA categories with Permanent Full-Time (PFT) as the reference category (N = 925), controlling for sex, age, and occupational skill level.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More precarious EA were associated with higher odds of adverse exposures. Casual Full-Time workers had the worst exposure profile, showing the lowest job control, as well as the highest odds of multiple job holding, shift work, and exposure to four or more additional occupational hazards. Fixed-Term Contract workers stood out as the most likely to report job insecurity. Self-employed workers showed the highest job control, but also the highest odds of long working hours.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychosocial and other working conditions were generally worse under more precarious EA, but patterns of adverse occupational exposures differ between groups of precariously employed workers.
authors.affiliation: McCaughey Centre, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie St., Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. alamonta@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Anthony D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: LaMontagne
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Amber M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Louie
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quinlan
authors.forename: Aleck S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ostry
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shoveller
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001315:Australia; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016272:Occupational Health; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors