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KMID : 1044620210540020110
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
2021 Volume.54 No. 2 p.110 ~ p.118
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Is Job Insecurity Worse for Mental Health Than Having a Part-time Job in Canada?
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Kim Il-Ho
Choi Cyu-Chul
Urbanoski Karen
Park Jung-Wee
Kim Ji-Man
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Abstract
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Objectives: A growing number of people depend on flexible employment, characterized by outsider employment status and perceived job insecurity. This study investigated whether there was a synergistic effect of employment status (full-time vs. part-time) and perceived job insecurity on major depressive disorder.
Method: Data were derived from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health of 12 640 of Canada’s labor force population, aged 20 to 74. By combining employment status with perceived job insecurity, we formed four employment categories: fulltime secure, full-time insecure, part-time secure, and part-time insecure.
Results: Results showed no synergistic health effect between employment status and perceived job insecurity. Regardless of employment status (full-time vs. part-time), insecure employment was significantly associated with a high risk of major depressive disorder. Analysis of the interaction between gender and four flexible employment status showed a gender-contingent effect on this link in only full-time insecure category. Men workers with full-time insecure jobs were more likely to experience major depressive disorders than their women counterparts.
Conclusions: This study’s findings imply that perceived job insecurity may be a critical factor for developing major depressive disorder, in both men and women workers.
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KEYWORD
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Employment, Gender, Major depressive disorder, Perceived job insecurity
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