Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job control and job demand

Hessels, Jolanda; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Zwan, Peter van der

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.10.007

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“…Stress (Akande 1994;Lechat 2014;Cardon and Patel 2015;Hessels et al 2017), work-family balance (Parasuraman et al 1996;Kirkwood and Toothill 2008), work overload (Boyd and Gumpert 1983;Buttner 1992), and role conflicts (Parasuraman et al 1996;INSERM 2011) are covered in the scholarly entrepreneurship literature but health, and bad health in particular, are only slowly making it into this literature. The present article with some focus on the pathogenic side is meant to compensate for this neglect.…”

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“…(Rodell and Judge 2009;Cavanaugh et al 2000) will most likely provide some interesting results. Drawing upon the Job Demand-Control (JDC) model, Hessels et al (2017) investigate differences in work-related stress between the self-employed and wage workers. Empirical analysis of a longitudinal Australian sample shows that the selfemployed experience less work-related stress than wage workers.…”

Section: The Negative Consequences Of Small Business Ownership For Hementioning

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“…In terms of autonomy, the self-employed with employees seem to be more autonomous regarding their decisions than ownaccount workers (Prottas and Thompson, 2006) because of the possibility of delegating work. At the same time, this autonomy is also under pressure because of the inability to have full control over the work that must be fulfilled (Hessels et al 2017).…”

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Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being

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In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of own-account workers (the selfemployed without employees), including freelancers, in many developed economies. Despite the importance of the group of freelancers for modern economies, little is known about the perceived benefits of freelancing. We use six waves of the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study ("Understanding Society", 2009 to investigate subjective well-being levels of freelancers in terms of satisfaction with life, work, leisure time, income and health. Although freelancing jobs are uncertain and temporary, our cross-sectional (pooled ordinary least squares (OLS)) and longitudinal (fixed-effects) analyses reveal that freelancers are on par regarding life satisfaction with other own-account workers, employers (self-employed workers with employees) and wage workers. The most striking result is that freelancers are significantly more satisfied with their leisure time than other own-account workers, employers and wage workers. Also, freelancers score significantly higher in terms of work satisfaction than wage workers, but do not exceed other own-account workers and employers in terms of work satisfaction. Freelancers are equally satisfied with their health as other ownaccount workers and employers. In sum, the analysis of several subdomains of life reveals much how different groups of self-employed workers score regarding their overall subjective well-being.

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“…Nevertheless, SSEs have good conditions for creating a healthy working environment due to their unique social and organizational attributes [23][24][25]. This is because the distance between decision-makers and co-workers is short, and managers as well as co-workers have considerable control of their work tasks [8,[26][27][28]. The characteristics of SSEs create potential for developing a positive culture at the workplace, which can in turn contribute to improving individual health and organizational performance [29].…”

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Ambiguity among Managers in Small-Scale Enterprises: How to Handle Business and Workplace Health Management

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Despite extensive research on health in working life, few studies focus on this issue from the perspective of managers in small-scale enterprises (SSEs). To gain deeper knowledge of managers' perceptions and strategies for dealing with workplace health management, 13 Norwegian and Swedish SSE managers were interviewed after participating in a workplace health development project. The methodical approach was based on Grounded Theory with a constructivist orientation. The main theme that emerged was 'ambiguity in workplace health management and maintaining the business', which was related to the categories 'internal workplace settings', 'workplace surroundings', and 'leadership strategies'. The managers experienced ambiguity due to internal and external demands. These requirements were linked to the core challenges in dealing with multitasking leadership, financial decision-making, labour legislation, staff development and maintaining business. However, the managers developed new skills and competence and thereby a more reflexive approach and readiness to create a health-promoting workplace from being part of a development project. The implications are that managers in SSEs need to exchange experiences and discuss workplace health issues with other managers in networks. It is also important that occupational health services and social and welfare organizations use tailor-made models and strategies for supporting SSEs.

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Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job control and job demand

Cited by 191 publications

References 102 publications

Small business owners and health

Small business owners and health

Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being

Ambiguity among Managers in Small-Scale Enterprises: How to Handle Business and Workplace Health Management

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