This article reports the results of a 33-wave longitudinal study of relations between job insecurity and physical and mental health based on monthly data collected between April 2020 and December 2022 among n = 1,666 employees in Germany. We integrate dynamic theorizing from the transactional stress model and domain-specific theorizing based on stressor creation and perception to frame hypotheses regarding dynamic and reciprocal relations between job insecurity and health over time. We find that lower physical health predicted subsequent increases in job insecurity and higher physical health predicted subsequent decreases in job insecurity. However, job insecurity did not have a significant influence on physical health. Furthermore, higher job insecurity predicted subsequent decreases in mental health, and higher mental health predicted subsequent decreases in job insecurity. This pattern of findings suggests a dynamic and reciprocal within-person process wherein positive deviations from one's average trajectory of job insecurity are associated with subsequently lower levels of mental health and vice versa. We additionally find evidence for linear trends in these within-person processes themselves, suggesting that the strength of the within-person influence of job insecurity on mental health becomes more strongly negative over time (i.e., a negative amplifying cycle). This research provides practical insights into job insecurity as a health threat and shows how concerns about job loss following deteriorations in physical and mental health serve to further threaten well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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工作不安全感与身心健康之间的动态互惠关系。


本文报告了一项关于工作不安全与身心健康之间关系的 33 波纵向研究的结果，该研究基于 2020 年 4 月至 2022 年 12 月期间在德国 n = 1,666 名员工中收集的月度数据。我们将交易压力模型的动态理论和基于压力源创建和感知的特定领域理论相结合，以构建关于工作不安全和健康随时间变化之间的动态和互惠关系的假设。我们发现，较低的身体健康状况预示着随后的工作不安全感的增加，而较高的身体健康状况预示着随后的工作不安全感的减少。然而，工作不安全对身体健康没有显着影响。此外，较高的工作不安全感预示着随后的心理健康下降，而较高的心理健康预示着随后的工作不安全感下降。这种发现模式表明了一个动态和互惠的人际过程，其中与一个人的平均工作不安全轨迹的积极偏差与随后较低的心理健康水平有关，反之亦然。我们还发现了这些面对面过程本身线性趋势的证据，表明工作不安全感对心理健康的面对面影响强度随着时间的推移变得更加负面（即负面放大循环）。这项研究为工作不安全作为健康威胁提供了实用见解，并揭示了对身心健康状况恶化后失业的担忧如何进一步威胁福祉。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。