title: Perceived job insecurity and health: the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the association between perceived job insecurity in the next 12 months and current health with a sample representing working-aged employed adults in southeast Michigan in late 2009/early 2010 (n, 440 to 443).
  
  
  METHODS
  Logistic regression was used to compare the health of participants who perceived job insecurity with those who did not, with adjustments for objective employment problems and social characteristics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Insecure workers were more likely to report fair or poor self-rated health (odds ratio [OR], 2.68; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14 to 6.32), symptoms suggesting major or minor depression (OR, 6.76; 95% CI, 3.34 to 13.3), and anxiety attacks (OR, 3.73; 95% CI, 1.40 to 9.97), even after correction for confounding factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study provides evidence that perceived job insecurity may be linked to health even among those who avoided unemployment in the late-2000s recession.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382, USA. burgards@umich.edu
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Burgard
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kalousova
authors.forename: Kristin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Seefeldt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D057172:Economic Recession; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008824:Michigan; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013315:Stress, Psychological