Job Insecurity in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis

Vicente Prado-Gascó, María del Carmen Giménez-Espert and Hans De Witte
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Vicente Prado-Gascó: Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
María del Carmen Giménez-Espert: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Chiropody, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Hans De Witte: Research Group Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Nurses are a key workforce in the international health system, and as such maintaining optimal working conditions is critical for preserving their well-being and good performance. One of the psychosocial risks that can have a major impact on them is job insecurity. This study aimed to carry out a bibliometric analysis, mapping job insecurity in 128 articles in nursing, and to determine the most important findings in the literature. The search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection database using the Science Citation Index (SCI)-Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) indexes on 6 March 2020. This field of discipline has recently been established and has experienced significant growth since 2013. The most productive and widely cited authors are Denton and Zeytinoglu. The most productive universities are Toronto University, McMaster University, and Monash University. The most productive countries are the United States, Canada, Australia, Finland, and the United Kingdom. The most widely used measure was Karasek’s Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ). The main findings report negative correlations with job satisfaction, mental well-being, and physical health. Job insecurity is a recent and little-discussed topic, and this paper provides an overview of the field. This will enable policies to reduce psychosocial risks among nurses to be implemented.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; job insecurity; nursing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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