title: Measuring precarious employment in times of crisis: the revised Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES) in Spain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examines the psychometric properties of the revised Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES-2010) in a context of economic crisis and growing unemployment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data correspond to salaried workers with a contract (n=4,750) from the second Psychosocial Work Environment Survey (Spain, 2010). Analyses included acceptability, scale score distributions, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and exploratory factor analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Response rates were 80% or above, scores were widely distributed with reductions in floor effects for temporariness among permanent workers and for vulnerability. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.70 or above; exploratory factor analysis confirmed the theoretical allocation of 21 out of 22 items.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The revised version of the EPRES demonstrated good metric properties and improved sensitivity to worker vulnerability and employment instability among permanent workers. Furthermore, it was sensitive to increased levels of precariousness in some dimensions despite decreases in others, demonstrating responsiveness to the context of the economic crisis affecting the Spanish labour market.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), Conicyt/Fondap/15110020, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Conicyt/Fondap/15130011, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Electronic address: alvives@med.puc.cl.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vives
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Francisca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: González
authors.affiliation: Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moncada
authors.affiliation: Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS), Barcelona, Spain; Department of Sociology, Political Sciences and Sociology Faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Clara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Llorens
authors.affiliation: Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Johns Hopkins University - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center (JHU-UPF PPC), Barcelona, Spain; Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socioecological Transitions (GinTRANS2), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benach
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057172:Economic Recession; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011594:Psychometrics; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Empleo; Employment; Employment precariousness; España; Precariedad laboral; Psicometría; Psychometrics; Spain