Perceptions of job insecurity and the impact of world market competition as health risks: results from Belstress.

Concern has been raised about the impact of job insecurity and fierce world market competition on the well-being and health of workers (Marmot, 1999). For that reason, the Job Content Questionnaire was supplemented with items that relate to the wider organization and, especially, global economy level. Two items relate to the 'perception of job insecurity' (JIS) and three items relate to the 'perception of impact of world market competition on one's own job' (WMC). In the Belstress study, which comprises a sample of 16,335 men and 5084 women aged 35-59 years recruited from 25 companies across Belgium between 1994 and 1998, cross-sectional associations of both factors with health status ...

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