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The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study

OBJECTIVE: Employment conditions in the care sector are changing, and precarious employment (PE) is becoming more widespread, manifesting as undervaluation, adverse leadership, work overload, and inadequate control over work. This study aimed to examine changes in psychosocial health, work well-bein...

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Autores principales: Hult, Marja, Kallio, Hanna, Kangasniemi, Mari, Pesonen, Tanja, Kopra, Juho
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10635982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37843632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-023-02017-z
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author Hult, Marja
Kallio, Hanna
Kangasniemi, Mari
Pesonen, Tanja
Kopra, Juho
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Kallio, Hanna
Kangasniemi, Mari
Pesonen, Tanja
Kopra, Juho
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description OBJECTIVE: Employment conditions in the care sector are changing, and precarious employment (PE) is becoming more widespread, manifesting as undervaluation, adverse leadership, work overload, and inadequate control over work. This study aimed to examine changes in psychosocial health, work well-being, PE, and calling over time and explore the effects of PE and calling on psychosocial health and work well-being. METHODS: The longitudinal study collected follow-up panel data in the three time points (2020, 2022, and 2023) from care workers (n = 1502), linear mixed effects models. RESULTS: PE decreased (β =  – 0.02), and perceived work well-being increased (β = 0.04), but there were no change in psychosocial health (β =  – 0.01) and calling (β = 0.01) during the three-year period. Younger (< 39) care workers perceived higher levels of PE and had poorer psychological health. Moreover, PE had a negative effect on psychosocial health (β =  – 0.63) and work well-being (β =  – 0.68) and calling had a positive effect on psychosocial health (β = 0.41) and work well-being (β = 0.49) in multivariate models. CONCLUSION: PE conditions affect work performance and employee well-being and may threaten patient care; therefore, it should be further investigated in the care sector. It is noteworthy that calling still seems to be central in care work. The results deepen the understanding of the current shortage crisis in health and social care workplaces but can also provide keys to resolving the crisis.
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spelling pubmed-106359822023-11-14 The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study Hult, Marja Kallio, Hanna Kangasniemi, Mari Pesonen, Tanja Kopra, Juho Int Arch Occup Environ Health Original Article OBJECTIVE: Employment conditions in the care sector are changing, and precarious employment (PE) is becoming more widespread, manifesting as undervaluation, adverse leadership, work overload, and inadequate control over work. This study aimed to examine changes in psychosocial health, work well-being, PE, and calling over time and explore the effects of PE and calling on psychosocial health and work well-being. METHODS: The longitudinal study collected follow-up panel data in the three time points (2020, 2022, and 2023) from care workers (n = 1502), linear mixed effects models. RESULTS: PE decreased (β =  – 0.02), and perceived work well-being increased (β = 0.04), but there were no change in psychosocial health (β =  – 0.01) and calling (β = 0.01) during the three-year period. Younger (< 39) care workers perceived higher levels of PE and had poorer psychological health. Moreover, PE had a negative effect on psychosocial health (β =  – 0.63) and work well-being (β =  – 0.68) and calling had a positive effect on psychosocial health (β = 0.41) and work well-being (β = 0.49) in multivariate models. CONCLUSION: PE conditions affect work performance and employee well-being and may threaten patient care; therefore, it should be further investigated in the care sector. It is noteworthy that calling still seems to be central in care work. The results deepen the understanding of the current shortage crisis in health and social care workplaces but can also provide keys to resolving the crisis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-10-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10635982/ /pubmed/37843632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-023-02017-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Hult, Marja
Kallio, Hanna
Kangasniemi, Mari
Pesonen, Tanja
Kopra, Juho
The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title_full The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title_fullStr The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title_full_unstemmed The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title_short The effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
title_sort effects of precarious employment and calling on the psychosocial health and work well-being of young and older workers in the care sector: a longitudinal study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10635982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37843632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-023-02017-z
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