ArticlePreventive medicine2024
The association between precarious employment and stress among working aged individuals in the United States.
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- Large language model exposure and precarious occupations: Unpacking relationships in the Canadian labor force.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Life in the Driver's Seat: A Qualitative Analysis of Rideshare Drivers' Perspectives of Their Work and Well-Being Using Reddit Posts.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- More than mirror images: Health associations of transitions between formal and informal employment.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Adolescent loneliness and precarious employment in young adulthood: The moderating role of school attachment.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Precarious employment and its associations with perceived stress and self-rated health: a Danish cross-sectional study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2026Article
- Understanding the link between adolescent depression and precarious employment in adulthood: evidence from a sibling fixed effects analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- A feasibility study exploring precarious employment and stress-related health among women.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Precarious work and chronic disease: lessons learned from the US national agricultural worker survey (1999-2020).Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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objectivePrecarious employment is a plausible stressor, which may adversely affect health. We investigated the association between multidimensional precarious employment and perceived and biological stress in the U.S.
methodsWe used data from waves 4 (2008-2009) and 5 (2016-2018) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Eight indicators were mapped to five dimensions of precarious employment to create a continuous score (PES, range: 0-5): material rewards, working-time arrangements, stability, workers' rights, and interpersonal relationships. Perceived stress was constructed from the four-item Cohen's perceived stress score (PSS; range: 0-16; wave 4). We measured biological stress in waves 4 and 5 via C-reactive protein (CRP). Given variability in CRP collection between waves, we treated wave 4 and 5 as cross-sectional. We employed adjusted linear regression models to estimate whether the PES was associated with the PSS in wave 4 (n = 11,510) and CRP in waves 4 (n = 10,343) and 5 (n = 3452).
resultIndividuals were aged 28 and 37 years on average in wave 4 and 5, respectively. Half were female and most identified as non-Hispanic (NH)-White (∼73 %), followed by NH-Black (∼14 %), Hispanic (∼9 %) and NH-other (∼4 %). Average PES was inversely related to education. The PSS averaged 8.1 (Interquartile Range [IQR] = 7.0,9.0). Average CRP was 4.4 mg/L (IQR = 0.8,5.0) in wave 4 and 3.6 mg/L (IQR = 0.8,4.2) in wave 5. The PES was associated with perceived stress (β=0.06; 95 % CI = 0.01,0.10) and CRP in wave 5 (β=0.34; 95 % CI = 0.07,0.62).
conclusionsGiven the deleterious effects of stress on health, policies to reduce precarious employment warrant consideration.
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