(www.neomundo.com.ar/SINC) an investigation led by psychologists Spaniards has concluded that the feeling that is going to lose the job worse the levels of satisfaction on other aspects of life, such as family, health, the economic situation and the balance between work and free time.
To measure that increases the fear of unemployment, “greater is the level of job insecurity, people are less satisfied with their personal, work, family life and are less committed to their work,” said Amparo Caballer, researcher at the Faculty of psychology of the University of Valencia and co-author of the study.
This analysis, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, also reveals that the consequences of job insecurity are different in each occupational group.
Different workers
Have been distinguished three groups: workers of blue-collar, white-collar and ’professional’. People with a job that does not require a high qualification – such as supermarket shop or keeper of hospital – are framed in the first group.
Belong to the second group of office workers, administrative, dependent and supermarket cashiers. The Group of ’professionals’ is composed doctors, engineers and nurses.
When there is uncertainty about employment, the blue collar workers “have less life satisfaction and yielding less and worse than the rest of the groups studied”, explains Caballer. For its part,
before instability, white-collar workers are showing more labor dissatisfaction.
Different reactions
In the light of the results of the study, not all employees react to the insecurity in the same way. Some groups are more likely to react more negatively to the perception of job insecurity, the authors of the article therefore advise not dealing with the problem in the same way in different groups of a company.
Data for the study were collected 321 workers replies to a questionnaire. 51.4% Were people who worked in hospitals, 25.7% played work in supermarkets and commercial distribution companies and 22.9% were employees of temporary employment agencies.
The average age of the participant in the study was 32 years. 66% Had a permanent contract and 34 per cent of another type of contract (e.g., temporary). “For studies of job insecurity, if the type of contract is temporarily or permanently is an important variable,” advises Caballer.
Of all of them, 74.3% were women and 25.7 per cent men, possibly because, as acknowledges the expert, “in these sectors, the majority of workers are women and is therefore most of the sample”.
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