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Casualisation; casual work; employment; underemployment; depression; GHQ; contingent work; stress; career; life adjustment; job seekers; mixed methods; labour market; Australian workers; longitudinal design; work life balance; online survey; jobs; life facets model
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Individual Adaptation To Discontinuous Employment For Australian Workers : A Longitudinal Mixed Method Study, Terry Olesen
Individual Adaptation To Discontinuous Employment For Australian Workers : A Longitudinal Mixed Method Study, Terry Olesen
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis research has had two aims: first, to determine how discontinuous (or “casual”) employment impacts on quality of life, mental health, and coping for a population of Australian job seekers; second, to determine how different groups of workers differ in coping style, quality of life, and mental health when dealing with discontinuous (casual, short-term) work. To address these aims a national survey was conducted of white collar, business and technical/scientific workers (N=229 at Time 1). Workers were sampled three times over the study period of nine months. The mixed method design consisted of two phases in order to capture …