Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

Frontiers in Public Health

Xavier Bartoll-Roca¹  Alex Gomez-Gomez²  Alejandra Vives³  Oscar J. Pozo⁵  Mireia Julià⁶  Fabrizio Méndez⁶  Francesc Xavier Belvis⁶  Eva Padrosa⁶  Mireia Bolibar⁷  Pere Jódar⁷  Joan Benach⁸ 

[1] Barcelona Public Health Agency, Barcelona, Spain;Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Department of Public Health, CEDEUS, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience Group, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain;Johns Hopkins University – Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center, Barcelona, Spain;Research Group on Health Inequalities, Environment, and Employment Conditions (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socioecological Transitions (GinTRANS2), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;

关键词: precarious employment;    stress;    health inequalities;    stress biomarkers;    social support networks;    in-work poverty;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.649447

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the pathways and mechanisms to explain such a relationship are not well-understood. This project aims to fill this gap from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the social and biomedical standpoints to comprehensively address the complex web of consequences of precarious employment and its effects on workers' stress, health and well-being, including health inequalities. The project objectives are: (1) to analyze the association between multidimensional precarious employment and chronic stress among salaried workers in Barcelona, measured both subjectively and using biological indicators; (2) to improve our understanding of the pathways and mechanisms linking precarious employment with stress, health and well-being; and (3) to analyze health inequalities by gender, social class and place of origin for the first two objectives. The study follows a sequential mixed design. First, secondary data from the 2017 Survey on Workers and the Unemployed of Barcelona is analyzed (N = 1,264), yielding a social map of precarious employment in Barcelona that allows the contextualization of the scope and characteristics of this phenomenon. Drawing on these results, a second survey on a smaller sample (N = 255) on precarious employment, social precariousness and stress is envisaged. This study population is also asked to provide a hair sample to have their levels of cortisol and its related components, biomarkers of chronic stress, analyzed. Third, a sub-sample of the latter survey (n = 25) is selected to perform qualitative semi-structured interviews. This allows going into greater depth into how and why the experience of uncertainty, the precarization of living conditions, and the degradation of working conditions go hand-in-hand with precarious employment and have an impact on stress, as well as to explore the potential role of social support networks in mitigating these effects.

【 授权许可】

Unknown