Ricerc@Sapienza

Nowadays, the labor market’s instability and flexibility has led to increased feelings of uncertainty, insecurity, and precariousness in the workforce. With respect to psychological health, available studies focused mainly on the consequences related to the fear of job loss as a whole (i.e., quantitative job insecurity), in comparison to the consequences of the threat of losing valued job features (i.e., qualitative job insecurity).

Background and objectives: A long research tradition has investigated the impact of stress on university students by assuming that individuals have a limited reservoir of resources, and that negative events and circumstances progressively drain resources thereby producing exhaustion. A recent research tradition, instead, has focused on the detrimental consequences of discrepant levels of implicit (ISE) and explicit (ESE) self-esteem on the development of stress-related symptoms.