Job Attributes and Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Sex Work and Hairstyling

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dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Bill
dc.contributor.authorJansson, Mikael
dc.contributor.authorBenoit, Cecilia
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-01T19:43:53Z
dc.date.available2021-02-01T19:43:53Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractA growing literature advocates for using a labor perspective to study sex work. According to this approach, sex work involves many of the costs, benefits, and possibilities for exploitation that are common to many jobs. We add to the field with an examination of job attributes and mental health. Our analysis is comparative and uses data from a panel study of people in sex work and hairstyling. We examined job attributes that may differ across these occupations, such as stigma and customer hostility, as well as those that may be more comparable, such as job insecurity, income, and self-employment. Our analysis used mixed-effects regression and included an array of time-varying and time-invariant variables. Our results showed negative associations between mental health and job insecurity and stigma, for both hairstyling and sex work. We also found two occupation-specific relationships: for sex work, limited discretion to make decisions while at work was negatively related to mental health, whereas for hairstyling, mental health was positively associated with self-employment. Our results highlight the usefulness of an inter-occupational labor perspective for understanding the mental health consequences of being in sex work compared to hairstyling.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Studies Grant Program, the University of California Davis, and the University of Victoria.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, B., Jansson, M., & Benoit, C. (2021). Job Attributes and Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Sex Work and Hairstyling. Social Sciences, 10(2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020035.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020035
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12640
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectsex work
dc.subjectmental health
dc.subjectjob attributes
dc.subjectjob insecurity
dc.subjectstigma
dc.subjectservice work
dc.subjecthairstyilng
dc.subjectCanadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.titleJob Attributes and Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Sex Work and Hairstylingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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