Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?

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...

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Autores: Belvis Costes, Francesc X., Bolíbar, Mireia, Benach, Joan, Julià, Mireia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/56691
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56691
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031909
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Palabra clave:chronic stress
precarious employment
social support networks
buffering hypothesis
cortisol
stress biomarkers
health inequalities
social determinants of health
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spelling Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?Belvis Costes, Francesc X.Bolíbar, MireiaBenach, JoanJulià, Mireiachronic stressprecarious employmentsocial support networksbuffering hypothesiscortisolstress biomarkershealth inequalitiessocial determinants of healthPrecarious 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.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.MDPI202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56691http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031909reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CSO2017-89719-R© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/566912026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
spellingShingle Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
Belvis Costes, Francesc X.
chronic stress
precarious employment
social support networks
buffering hypothesis
cortisol
stress biomarkers
health inequalities
social determinants of health
title_short Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
title_full Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
title_fullStr Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
title_full_unstemmed Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
title_sort Precarious employment and chronic stress: do social support networks matter?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Belvis Costes, Francesc X.
Bolíbar, Mireia
Benach, Joan
Julià, Mireia
author Belvis Costes, Francesc X.
author_facet Belvis Costes, Francesc X.
Bolíbar, Mireia
Benach, Joan
Julià, Mireia
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Benach, Joan
Julià, Mireia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv chronic stress
precarious employment
social support networks
buffering hypothesis
cortisol
stress biomarkers
health inequalities
social determinants of health
topic chronic stress
precarious employment
social support networks
buffering hypothesis
cortisol
stress biomarkers
health inequalities
social determinants of health
description 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.
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