Table 3 Gender stratified associations between job insecurity, unemployment and health
No. | Health dimension | Health outcome | Publication | Statistics | Job insecurity | Unemployment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Men | Women | Men | Women |
1. | General health/illness | Long-standing illness | Ferrie 1997 [31] | Odds Ratio (p) | 1.06 (n.s.) | 3.39 (n.s.) | 1.62 (n.s.) | 3.76 (n.s.) |
2. | Number of health problems (over the last year) | Ferrie 1997 [31] | Mean (p) | 1.34 (n.s.) | 2.39 (n.s.) | 1.57 (n.s.) | 2.03 (n.s.) | |
3. | Self-rated health (5-point scale) | Ferrie 1997 [31] | Odds Ratio (p) | 1.52 (n.s.) | 1.40 (n.s.) | 1.54 (n.s.) | 2.08 (n.s.) | |
4. | Mental health | Mental Health (GHQ) | Ferrie 1997 [31] | Mean (p) | 2.63 (<.001) | 2.82 (<.05) | 2.29 (<.01) | 2.57 (n.s.) |
5. | Mental Health (SF-36) | Green 2011 [33] | Unstandardized OLS coefficient (p) | −5.113 (<.001) | −3.137 (<.001) | −8.037 (<.001) | −8.422 (<.001) | |
6. | Mortality | Mortality | Perlman 2009 [41] | Hazards ratio (p) | 0.99 (n.s.) | 1.15 (n.s.) | 1.39 (<.05) | 0.67 (n.s.) |
7. | Somatic symptoms | Number of symptoms (in the past fortnight) | Ferrie 1997 [31] | Mean (p) | 3.63 (n.s.) | 4.47 (n.s.) | 3.94 (n.s.) | 3.60 (n.s.) |
8. | Hypertension | Levenstein 2001 [15] | Odds Ratio (p) | 1.6 (<.05) | 1.0 (n.s.) | 2.7 (<.05) | 0.8 (n.s.) | |