Buffering effect of workplace social capital on the association of job insecurity with psychological distress in Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study

• Inoue Akiomi

  Department of Mental Health, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health

• Kawakami Norito

  Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

• Eguchi Hisashi

  Department of Public Health, Kitasato University School of Medicine

• Tsutsumi Akizumi

  Department of Public Health, Kitasato University School of Medicine

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Other Title

• Buffering effect of workplace social capital on the association of job insecurity with psychological distress in Japanese employees: a cross‐sectional study

Abstract

Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the buffering effect of workplace social capital (WSC) on the association of job insecurity with psychological distress in Japanese employees. Methods: 2,971 employees from two factories of a manufacturing company in Japan completed a self-administered questionnaire including the scales on job insecurity, WSC, psychological distress, demographic and occupational characteristics, and quantitative workload. Using psychological distress (defined as a total score of the K6 scale ≥5) as a dependent variable, multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted. In a series of analyses, interaction term of job insecurity×WSC was included in the model. Results: After adjusting for demographic and occupational characteristics as well as for quantitative workload and interaction effect of quantitative workload×WSC, high job insecurity and low WSC were significantly associated with psychological distress. Furthermore, a significant interaction effect of job insecurity×WSC was observed. Specifically, the association of job insecurity with psychological distress was greater among those who perceived lower levels of WSC (prevalence odds ratio=3.79 [95% confidence interval=2.70-5.32] for high vs. low job insecurity subgroup) than among those who perceived higher levels of WSC (prevalence odds ratio=2.96 [95% confidence interval=2.19-4.01] for high vs. low job insecurity subgroup). These findings were replicated among permanent male employees in the gender-stratified analyses. Conclusions: The present study suggests that WSC has a buffering effect on the association of job insecurity with psychological distress at least among Japanese permanent male employees.

Journal

• Journal of Occupational Health

  Journal of Occupational Health 58 (5), 460-469, 2016

  Japan Society for Occupational Health

Keywords

• Japan
• Job insecurity
• K6 scale
• Moderating effect
• Psychological distress
• Workplace social capital

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• CRID: 1390001204455880192
• NII Article ID: 130005265277
• NII Book ID: AA11090645
• DOI: 10.1539/joh.16-0129-oa
• ISSN: 13489585
• ISSN: 13419145
• NDL BIB ID: 027621259
• PubMed: 27488045
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