The relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being in Korean wage workers through the Cantril ladder Scale.
Ann Occup Environ Med
; 32: e11, 2020.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The global labor market is moving towards increasing job instability. Relatively few studies have examined the relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being using quantitative scales. We evaluated the association between wage workers' employment status and their subjective well-being through the Cantril ladder scale using Korean Welfare Panel Survey data (KOWEPS).METHODS:
This study used KOWEPS data. A total of 4,423 wage workers were divided into permanently employed workers, temporarily employed workers and daily employed workers. The relationship between precarious employment and subjective well-being was analyzed by multiple linear regression adjusted for potential confounding factors.RESULTS:
The more unstable the employment status, the lower the subjective well-being, which can be expressed by the Cantril ladder scale. The mean score of both temporarily employed and daily employed workers were statistically significantly lower (B = -0.454, p < 0.001; B = -0.994, p < 0.001, respectively) than permanently employed workers. This appeared to be the same when occupational and sociodemographic factors were adjusted (B = -0.153, p = 0.002 for temporarily employed, B = -0.610, p < 0.001 for daily employed).CONCLUSIONS:
The more unstable the employment status, the lower the subjective well-being score according to the Cantril ladder scale.
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Ann Occup Environ Med
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2020
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