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Is Insecurity Worse for Well-being in Turbulent Times? Mental Health in Context

Overview of attention for article published in Society and Mental Health, October 2013
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Title
Is Insecurity Worse for Well-being in Turbulent Times? Mental Health in Context
Published in
Society and Mental Health, October 2013
DOI 10.1177/2156869313507288
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Jack Lam, Wen Fan, Phyllis Moen

Abstract

Using General Social Survey data, we examine whether any association between job insecurity and well-being is contingent on economic climate (comparing those interviewed in turbulent 2010 vs. pre-recessionary 2006), as well as income and gender. We find respondents with higher levels of job insecurity in 2010 reported lower levels of happiness compared to those similarly insecure in 2006. The positive relationship between job insecurity and days of poor mental health becomes more pronounced for those in the 3(rd) quartile of personal income in 2010, suggesting middle-class vulnerability during the economic downturn. Men (but not women) with higher insecurity report more days of poor mental health in both 2006 and 2010. These findings reinforce a "cycles of control" theoretical approach, given the mental health-job insecurity relationship is heightened for workers in turbulent times.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Austria 1 2%
Unknown 58 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 20%
Lecturer 6 10%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 12 20%
Unknown 14 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 27%
Psychology 10 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 19 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 May 2016.
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#6,087,344
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#86
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#55,721
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Outputs of similar age from Society and Mental Health
#2
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