Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2019.1567619

L. Hünefeld, Susanne Gerstenberg, J. Hüffmeier

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The current systematic literature review aimed to analyse the associations between temporary agency work (TAW), job satisfaction, and mental health in Europe, as well as to outline a future research agenda. Twenty-eight scientific articles were identified by searching different data bases (i.e. PSYNDEX, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science) for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016. Our review reveals first that TAW is not consistently negatively related to job satisfaction. However, job insecurity and working conditions are important mediators in the relation of TAW and lowered job satisfaction. Second, TAW is not consistently related to all investigated types of mental health impairments. However, when focusing on specific outcomes and comparing temporary agency workers to permanent employees, we still find consistent evidence regarding higher levels of depression and fatigue among temporary agency workers. Inconsistent associations between TAW, job satisfaction and mental health can partly be attributed to unfavourable methodological aspects of the included primary studies. To address these aspects, future research should consider applying a standard measurement of TAW, including a minimum of meaningful confounding variables, improving the operationalisation of outcome variables and the study design.

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欧洲临时工的工作满意度与心理健康:系统回顾与研究议程

摘要当前的系统文献综述旨在分析欧洲临时代理工作（TAW）、工作满意度和心理健康之间的关系，并概述未来的研究议程。在2000年1月至2016年12月的时间跨度内，通过搜索不同的数据库（即PSYNDEX、PsycINFO、PubMed和Web of Science），确定了28篇科学文章。我们的综述首先表明，TAW与工作满意度并不总是呈负相关。然而，工作不安全感和工作条件是TAW和工作满意度下降关系的重要中介因素。其次，TAW与所有调查类型的心理健康障碍并不一致。然而，当我们关注具体结果并将临时机构员工与长期员工进行比较时，我们仍然发现一致的证据表明，临时机构员工的抑郁和疲劳程度更高。TAW、工作满意度和心理健康之间的不一致关联可以部分归因于纳入的初级研究的不利方法方面。为了解决这些方面的问题，未来的研究应该考虑应用TAW的标准测量，包括最少的有意义的混杂变量，改善结果变量的操作性和研究设计。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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11.70

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3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.