Job Insecurity, Financial Threat, and Mental Health in the COVID-19 Context: The Moderating Role of the Support Network

Carlos-María Alcover, Sergio Salgado, Gabriela Nazar, Raúl Ramírez-Vielma and Carolina González-Suhr

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 3, 21582440221121048

Abstract: The aim of this study is two-fold. Firstly, to analyze the relations between the perceptions of job insecurity and financial threat and general mental health during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. And secondly, to identify the potential moderating effect of the support network. We carried out a cross-sectional study on a non-probabilistic sample aimed at a general Chilean adult population to analyze this. The results show that both job insecurity ( β  = −.183; p  

Keywords: job insecurity; financial threat; general mental health; social support; support network; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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