Involuntary full- and part-time work: employees' mental health and the role of family- and work-related resources

Resources related to a good work-life balance may play an important role for the mental health of workers with involuntary working hours. This study investigates whether involuntary part-time (i.e., working part-time, but preferring full-time work) and involuntary full-time work (i.e., working full-time, but preferring part-time work) are associated with a deterioration of mental health and whether family- and work-related resources buffer this association. Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with baseline information on involuntary working hours and resources. This information was linked to changes in mental health two years later. We found impaired mental health for involuntary full-time male workers and increased mental health for regular part-time female workers. The mental health of involuntary full-time male workers is more vulnerable, compared to regular full-time workers, when having high non-standard work hours and when being a partner (with or without children). Involuntary part-time work is detrimental to men’s mental health when doing a high amount of household work. This study is one of the first to emphasize the mental health consequences of involuntary full-time work. Avoiding role and time conflicts between family and work roles are important for the mental health of men too.

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Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/09500170211001271 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095001702110012

Author(s):

Valeria Insarauto

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Labour Supply ◽

Labour Force ◽

Gender Norms ◽

Transmission Mechanism ◽

Female Employment ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Part Time Work

This article studies women’s vulnerability to the economic crisis of 2008 through the lens of part-time work in Spain. It posits that part-time work made the female employment position more fragile by acting as a transmission mechanism of traditional gender norms that establish women as secondary workers. This argument is tested through an analysis of Labour Force Survey data from 2007 to 2014 that examines the influence of the employment situation of the household on women’s part-time employment patterns. The results expose the limited take-up of part-time work but also persistent patterns of involuntariness and underemployment corresponding to negative household employment situations, highlighting the constraining role of gender norms borne by the relative position of part-time work in the configuration of employment structures. The article concludes that, during the crisis, part-time work participated in the re-establishment of women as a family dependent and flexible labour supply, increasing their vulnerability.

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Transitions from part-time unemployment: Is part-time work a dead end or a stepping stone to the labour market?

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x10387836 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 569-589 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jonas Månsson ◽

Jan Ottosson

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Temporary Employment ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Full Time ◽

Stepping Stone ◽

Work Related ◽

Dead End ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Part Time Work

This article analyses the effects of individual characteristics on the probability of leaving part-time unemployment. The results show that it cannot be unreservedly asserted that part-time work offers access to the core labour market. Among the part-time unemployed, there are great variations in the degree to which they are likely to leave part-time unemployment. A concentration of labour market policy activities on the part-time unemployed who are least likely to succeed in finding full-time employment can, therefore, be expected to have positive consequences from both equity and efficiency points of view. In this respect, part-time unemployed women, persons with work-related disabilities and persons with temporary employment come to the forefront. The article shows that the likelihood of finding a full-time job is certainly not great for persons belonging to these groups. For many of them, part-time job is not a stepping stone but rather a dead end on the labour market.

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Adolescent Employment, Mental Health, and Suicidal Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17186835 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (18) ◽

pp. 6835

Author(s):

Hyerine Shin ◽

Kyung hee Kim ◽

Ji-su Kim ◽

Eunkyung Lee

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Propensity Score ◽

Confidence Interval ◽

Suicidal Behavior ◽

Work Experience ◽

Odds Ratio ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

The Impact ◽

Part Time Work

This study aimed to confirm the relationships between part-time work experience, mental health, and suicidal behavior in adolescents. The impact of part-time work in this population is a controversial topic, perhaps because of the sociocultural background-related inconsistencies in previous results. In this cross-sectional study, which involved a secondary analysis of data from the 11th–13th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Surveys, conducted among 800 middle and high schools by the Korean government, we used propensity score matching analysis to minimize the impact of individual backgrounds on the findings concerning the relationships in question. Overall, part-time experience was significantly related to mental health problems and suicidal behavior even after eliminating background differences. Adolescents with part-time work experience had higher overall stress levels (odds ratio = 1.148; 95% confidence interval = 1.094, 1.205) than those without such experience, and more suicidal thoughts (odds ratio = 1.355; 95% confidence interval = 1.266, 1.450), suicide planning (odds ratio = 1.717; 95% confidence interval = 1.527, 1.929), and suicide attempts (odds ratio = 1.852; 95% confidence interval = 1.595, 2.151). Thus, it is important to pay increased attention to mental health and suicide-related issues in South Korean adolescents with part-time jobs.

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THE RIGHT TO SHARE WORK? An Interim Report on Permanent Part- Time Work Study Co-ordinator: John Engel; Study Research Officer: Joan Ford (Future Lobby and NSW Association for Mental Health, Sydney, 1978), 26 pp. Price $1 (paperback)

Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/002218567902100315 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 374-374

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Work Study ◽

Interim Report ◽

Study Research ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

The Right ◽

Part Time Work ◽

Research Officer

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Commuting times – The role of gender, children and part-time work

Research in Transportation Economics ◽

10.1016/j.retrec.2011.12.001 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 66-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Ronald W. McQuaid ◽

Tao Chen

Keyword(s):

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Part Time Work

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Does Early Decompressive Craniectomy Improve Outcome? Experience from an Active UK Recruiter Centre

Case Reports in Critical Care ◽

10.1155/2013/714945 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-3 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. García Vicente ◽

V. Garnelo Rey ◽

M. Manikon ◽

S. Ashworth ◽

M. H. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Decompressive Craniectomy ◽

Case Reports ◽

Road Accident ◽

Brain Contusion ◽

Icu Length Of Stay ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Maximal Medical Therapy ◽

Part Time Work

Introduction. The results of the recent DECRA study suggest that although craniectomy decreases ICP and ICU length of stay, it is also associated with worst outcomes. Our experience, illustrated by these two striking cases, supports that early decompressive craniectomy may significantly improve the outcome in selected patients.Case Reports. The first patient, a 20-year-old man who suffered severe brain contusion and subarachnoid haemorrhage after a fall downstairs, with refractory ICP of 35 mmHg, despite maximal medical therapy, eventually underwent decompressive craniectomy. After 18 days in intensive care, he was discharged for rehabilitation. The second patient, a 23-year-old man was found at the scene of a road accident with a GCS of 3 and fixed, dilated pupils who underwent extensive unilateral decompressive craniectomy for refractory intracranial hypertension. After three weeks of cooling, paralysis, and neuroprotection, he eventually left ICU for rehabilitation.Outcomes. Four months after leaving ICU, the first patient abseiled 40 m down the main building of St. Mary’s Hospital to raise money for the Trauma Unit. He has returned to part-time work. The second patient, was decannulated less than a month later and made a full cognitive recovery. A year later, with a titanium skull prosthesis, he is back to part-time work and to playing football.Conclusions. Despite the conclusions of the DECRA study, our experience of the use of early decompressive craniectomy has been associated with outstanding outcomes. We are currently actively recruiting patients into the RESCUEicp trial and have high hopes that it will clarify the role of the decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury and whether it effectively improves outcomes.

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Dilettantismus oder „Nebenwerk“?

Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung ◽

10.3790/zhf.48.3.475 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 475-499

Author(s):

Martin Mulsow

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Late 18Th Century ◽

Time Work ◽

Big Picture ◽

Part Time ◽

Main Activity ◽

The Relationship ◽

Part Time Work

Dilettantism or “Nebenwerk”? A Gotha Proposal on the Position of Science at the Courts in the Late 18th Century This essay discusses the contents of a presumably collective program that Gotha intellectuals published in 1776. In the text under study, “Von der spielenden Gelehrsamkeit”, they seek to legitimate their scientific and scholarly part-time work in addition to their employment as court officials or professionals in the ducal residence. The text is polyphonious and seems to be based on compromises between different authors. Accordingly, it does not present a consistent argument. For the historian, the consistency of the text is less relevant than what it reveals about the precarious status of part-time science and how it was viewed by contemporaries. The authors of the proposal argue that a self-confident form of patriotism – a patriotism that is related to the princely territory – and the emphasis on practical applications could help to prevent science and scholarship from sliding into pedantic specialization. For the authors, however, this did not mean rejecting the micrology, the collection of seemingly insignificant individual observations. On the contrary: micrology should be possible precisely because the part-time scholars – through their work for the principality at court – would never lose sight of the big picture. In the previous research discussion about the role of dilettantism in the genesis of science, the question of the relationship between the main activity at court and the secondary activity, the Nebenwerk, as a scientist has so far been neglected. The text under discussion therefore throws an important light on the coupling attempts that have been made here between different social subsystems.

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