Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
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- dc.contributor.author Belvis, Francesc Xavier
- dc.contributor.author Bolíbar, Mireia
- dc.contributor.author Benach, Joan
- dc.contributor.author Julià, Mireia
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-05T06:17:21Z
- dc.date.available 2023-05-05T06:17:21Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract Precarious employment has been identified as a potentially damaging stressor. Conversely, social support networks have a well-known protective effect on health and well-being. The ways in which precariousness and social support may interact have scarcely been studied with respect to either perceived stress or objective stress biomarkers. This research aims to fill this gap by means of a cross-sectional study based on a non-probability quota sample of 250 workers aged 25–60 in Barcelona, Spain. Fieldwork was carried out between May 2019 and January 2020. Employment precariousness, perceived social support and stress levels were measured by means of scales, while individual steroid profiles capturing the chronic stress suffered over a period of a month were obtained from hair samples using a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methodology. As for perceived stress, analysis indicates that a reverse buffering effect exists (interaction B = 0.22, p = 0.014). Steroid biomarkers are unrelated to social support, while association with precariousness is weak and only reaches significance at p < 0.05 in the case of women and 20ß dihydrocortisone metabolites. These results suggest that social support can have negative effects on the relationship between perceived health and an emerging stressful condition like precariousness, while its association with physiological measures of stress remains uncertain.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the research grant “Precariedad laboral y estrés: factores sociales con impacto biomédico”, ref. CSO2017-89719-R funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), EU.
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- dc.identifier.citation Belvis F, Bolíbar M, Benach J, Julià M. Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(3):1909. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19031909
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031909
- dc.identifier.issn 1660-4601
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56691
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher MDPI
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CSO2017-89719-R
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- dc.subject.keyword chronic stress
- dc.subject.keyword precarious employment
- dc.subject.keyword social support networks
- dc.subject.keyword buffering hypothesis
- dc.subject.keyword cortisol
- dc.subject.keyword stress biomarkers
- dc.subject.keyword health inequalities
- dc.subject.keyword social determinants of health
- dc.title Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
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