Unfair Pay and Health: The Effects of Perceived Injustice of Earnings on Physical Health

Schunck, Reinhard; Sauer, Carsten; Valet, Peter

doi:10.1093/esr/jcv065

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“…The mental component summary (MCS) and the physical component summary (PCS) scores were generated by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis, 2 (45) = 906.922, p < .001, RMSEA = .069, CFI = .952, TLI = .930; see Appendix, Figure A1) for T1 and T2. In contrast to the conventional computation of the MCS/PCS scales, the factors were allowed to correlate, which reflects the more realistic notion that these two aspects of health may influence each other (Schunck, Sauer, & Valet, 2015;Tucker, Adams, & Wilson, 2014). In accordance with the original approach, both scores were standardized to a sample mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10, where higher values indicate better health.…”

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Psychological contract breach and employee health: The relevance of unmet obligations for mental and physical health

Reimann

Guzy

2017

Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones

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This study examines the effects of psychological contract breach (PCB) on employee mental and physical health (SF-12) using a sample of 3,870 employees derived from a German longitudinal linked employeremployee study across various industries. Results of multivariate regression models and mediation analysis suggest that PCB affects both the mental and the physical health of employees but is more threatening to employee mental health. In addition, mental health partly mediates the effects of PCB on physical health. Also, the findings of this study show that the relative importance of obligations not met by employers differs according to the specific contents of the psychological contract. In conclusion, the results of this study support the idea that PCB works as a psychosocial stressor at work that represents a crucial risk to employee health.

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Psychological contract breach and employee health: The relevance of unmet obligations for mental and physical health

Reimann

Guzy

2017

Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones

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“…New samples are added to the SOEP data at regular intervals to replenish the sample and ensure continuing representativeness of the population in Germany [ 29 , 30 ]. Since the SOEP covers a wide range of topics, including self-reported health behaviour—such as smoking beginning in 1998—it is widely used to study health related outcomes [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ]. We used the SOEP data set version 29 which includes data until the year 2012.…”

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Effect of Length of Stay on Smoking among Turkish and Eastern European Immigrants in Germany—Interpretation in the Light of the Smoking Epidemic Model and the Acculturation Theory

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Schunck

Razum

2015

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Background: We analyzed changes in smoking by length of stay among immigrants in Germany and related them to the “smoking epidemic” model and the acculturation theory. Methods: We used data from a longitudinal survey (German Socio-economic Panel). Immigrants were identified by country of birth (Turkey: respondents n = 828, observations n = 3871; Eastern Europe: respondents n = 2009, observations n = 7202; non-immigrants: respondents n = 34,011, observations n = 140,701). Smoking status data was available for nine years between 1998 and 2012. Length of stay (LOS, in years) was used as proxy for acculturation. We calculated smoking prevalences, prevalence ratios and a random intercept multilevel logistic regression model. Results: With each year spent in Germany, smoking prevalence increases among Turkish women (OR = 1.14 (95%CI = 1.06–1.21)) and slightly decreases among men. Recently immigrated Turkish women smoke less than non-immigrant women (0–5 years: SPR = 0.25 (95%CI = 0.10–0.57)); prevalences converge with increasing LOS (31+ years: SPR = 1.25 (95%CI = 1.06–1.48)). Among Eastern European immigrants no significant changes were apparent. Conclusions: Immigrants from Turkey “import” their smoking prevalence from a country which is in the earlier stages of the “smoking epidemic”. With increasing LOS (thus, advancing acculturation), they “move” to the later stages. Anti-smoking interventions should consider different smoking attitudes in Turkey/Germany and need to discourage women from initiating smoking. Future research should also identify reasons for the possible differences between immigrant groups.

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“…Following equity theory (Adams 1965; Walster, Walster, and Berscheid 1978), scholars have documented the influence of a prominent type of distributive injustice—the sense of unjust earnings—on a variety of emotional, health, and behavioral indicators. These include work-related outcomes, such as job dissatisfaction and turnover (D’Ambrosio, Clark, and Barazzetta 2018; Narisada and Schieman 2016), and also extend to indicators of well-being, such as anger, depression, and physical health symptoms (Hegtvedt 1990; Narisada 2017; Schunck, Sauer, and Valet 2015). Collectively, these results demonstrate that the sense of distributive injustice has significant costs for individuals and organizations.…”

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Job Pressure, the Work-Family Interface, and the Sense of Distributive Injustice: An Elaboration of Work-Related Inputs among Twenty-First Century Workers

Narisada

2020

Soc Psychol Q

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Research in social psychology demonstrates that the sense of distributive injustice has emotional, health, and behavioral consequences. It is therefore important to assess how individuals come to perceive their earnings as unjust. I provide new insights to this question by integrating perspectives in distributive justice, the stress process, and the work-family interface. Specifically, I describe a model that delineates how excessive work pressures elevate workers’ sense of what they should earn through actions and strains in the work-family interface. Using data from a 2017 sample of Canadian workers, the results indicate that higher job pressure is associated with a greater expectation of rewards. Part of this association is indirect through role blurring behavior and work-to-family conflict, and this mechanism is intensified for parents. Collectively, these discoveries expand the scope of what counts as inputs in shaping employees’ sense of what they should justly earn.

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Unfair Pay and Health: The Effects of Perceived Injustice of Earnings on Physical Health

Cited by 41 publications

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Psychological contract breach and employee health: The relevance of unmet obligations for mental and physical health

Psychological contract breach and employee health: The relevance of unmet obligations for mental and physical health

Effect of Length of Stay on Smoking among Turkish and Eastern European Immigrants in Germany—Interpretation in the Light of the Smoking Epidemic Model and the Acculturation Theory

Job Pressure, the Work-Family Interface, and the Sense of Distributive Injustice: An Elaboration of Work-Related Inputs among Twenty-First Century Workers

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