摘要：We investigated the significance of unemployment and job insecurity for mental health (self-esteem;life satisfaction) and occupational commitment (occupational self-efficacy;affective occupational commitment) comparing the “equal threat” assumption with the “downward spiral” assumption.Whereas the equal threat model suggests that unemployment and (perceived) insecure employment are similarly threatening phenomena,the downward spiral model assumes that there might be a spectrum of employment insecurity,ranging from secure employment to long-term unemployment,that is associated with decreasing mental health and occupational commitment.Controlling for socio-demographic background variables and personality traits,results of ANCOVAs,in which we distinguished between workers who were (more or less) securely employed and those who were either insecurely employed or short- or long-term unemployed revealed that the insecurely employed workers were no better off than those who were (short-term) unemployed - in line with the equal threat hypothesis.Only for occupational self-efficacy did we find some support for the downward spiral model.
其他摘要：V pričujoči študiji smo proučevali pomembnost brezposelnosti in negotovosti delovnega mesta za duševno zdravje (samospoštovanje,življenjsko zadovoljstvo) in poklicno pripadnost (poklicna samoučinkovitost,afektivna organizacijska pripadnost),pri čemer smo primerjali domnevo enakovrednih groženj z domnevo spirale navzdol.Medtem ko prva domneva predvideva,da sta brezposelnost in negotovost delovnih mest podobno ogrožajoča fenomena,slednja predvideva celoten spekter negotovosti delovnih mest od varne zaposlitve do dolgotrajne brezposelnosti,ki je v tej smeri povezan z vse slabšim duševnih zdravjem in z nižjo poklicno pripadnostjo.Ob vključitvi kontrolnih demografskih in osebnostnih spremenljivk,so ANCOVA analize,v katerih smo ločili med skupinami (bolj ali manj) varno zaposlenih uslužbencev,tistih z negotovimi delovnimi mesti in tudi kratko- ter dolgotrajno brezposelnimi,pokazale,da uslužbenci z negotovimi delovnimi mesti niso bistveno na boljšem kot kratkotrajno brezposelni.Navedeno je v skladu z domnevo enakovrednih groženj.Pri poklicni samoučinkovitosti naši rezultati delno podpirajo tudi model spirale navzdol.
