AUTHOR=Liu Teng , Liu Qian , Jiang Daokui 

TITLE=The Influence of Flexible Employment on Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence From Chinese General Social Survey

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.771598

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.771598

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Based on the 2017 China General Social Survey (CGSS) data, with 5439 observations as research objects, this paper empirically tests the impact of flexible employment on workers’ well-being, and introduces labor income as mediator and social security as moderator to explore the mechanism of action. The empirical results show that: flexible employment has an inverted U-shaped relationship with workers’ well-being, which indicates that increasing employments’ flexibility will first rise and then reduce their perceived subjective well-being after reaching the peak; labor income plays a mediating role in the relationship of flexible employment and well-being of workers; social security moderates the mediating effect of labor income whereas the moderating role in the relationship between flexible employment and workers’ well-being is not observed. Implications and future development of flexible employment are discussed.