[Job precariousness and mental health: the moderating importance of age].

Global job precariousness correlated significantly with mental health problems in workers.

• Study conducted in the Valencian Community with 100 participants.
• EPRES scale was used to measure job precariousness and GHQ-12 to assess mental health.
• Global precariousness correlated with mental health problems (r=0.429).
• Correlation and linear regression analyses were performed.

Multiple specific dimensions of job precariousness showed statistically significant correlations with mental health.

• Wages dimension correlated with mental health (r=0.444).
• Vulnerability dimension showed the strongest correlation with mental health (r=0.530).
• Rights dimension correlated with mental health (r=0.307).
• Capacity to exercise rights correlated with mental health (r=0.340).

Only wages and vulnerability dimensions demonstrated explanatory ability for mental health in regression analyses.

• Wages showed explanatory ability (f=4.810).
• Vulnerability showed explanatory ability (f=20.425).
• Other dimensions of precariousness did not show significant explanatory capacity in regression analyses.

Age showed a negative correlation with global job precariousness but not with mental health.

• Age correlated negatively with global precariousness (r=-0.389), indicating older workers experienced less precariousness.
• No significant correlation was found between age and mental health.
• Global precariousness affected mental health similarly across all age groups.

Age moderated the relationship between wage precariousness and mental health, with a greater impact observed in younger workers.

• The interaction between wages and age was statistically significant (f=3.997).
• The impact of wage precariousness on mental health was greater in young workers and almost nonexistent in older workers.
• This suggests that mental health of young people is more vulnerable to wage precariousness specifically.
• No such age-moderated interaction was reported for other dimensions of precariousness.