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Workers With Different Employment Status Have Different Exposures to Work Stressors and Different Responses to
1Department of Occupational Health, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan (Dr Park), South Korea; Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan (Dr Kim), South Korea.
Introduction:
This study evaluated the relationship between exposure to diverse work-related stressors and psychological well-being in workers with precarious employment.
Methods:
This was a secondary analysis of data from the fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey, conducted in 2017.
Results:
Daily workers were more likely to report poor psychological well-being than regular or temporary workers. Furthermore, higher proportions of daily workers reported exposure to the nine analyzed work stressors. However, only three of nine workplace stressors (lack of decision latitude, lack of reward, and lack of support from workplace managers) affected male and female daily workers.
Conclusion:
A strategy designed to improve the psychological well-being of workers with precarious employment that is based on typical job stressor evaluation tools, may have limited effects.
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