The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity

José Antonio Llosa, Enrique Iglesias-Martínez, Esteban Agulló-Tomás, Sara Menéndez-Espina and Beatriz Oliveros
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Enrique Iglesias-Martínez: University of Oviedo (P. Ossó Faculty), Spain
Esteban Agulló-Tomás: University of Oviedo (Faculty of Psychology), Spain
Beatriz Oliveros: University of Oviedo (P. Ossó Faculty), Spain

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2025, vol. 46, issue 1, 239-255

Abstract: Suicidal ideation is a variable prior to suicidal behaviour and one of the main producers of risk of death by suicide. The sample consisted of a total of 1,288 people living in Spain who at the time of answering the questionnaire were in active employment. Contractual status is a significant variable for the prediction of suicidal ideation. Contractual temporality is a risk factor for suicidal ideation, whereas permanent employment is a protective factor. In suicidal ideation, job insecurity is a mediating risk factor and a key dimension of job precariousness because of the adverse effects on mental health it causes. Job insecurity interacts with objective causes of precariousness and is presented as a necessary variable for understanding the relationship between these material causes and suicidal thoughts.

Keywords: Contractual temporality; job insecurity; path mediation model; precarious employment; suicidal ideation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X241240616

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