Fear of losing employment leads to dissatisfaction and lack of commitment
(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...
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