Happy riders are all alike? Ambivalent subjective experience and mental well‐being of food‐delivery platform workers in China
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Abstract This study draws upon organizational psychology and platform labor research to investigate how socio‐psychological factors affect the mental well‐being of workers help them cope with challenges work. Based on a survey 500 food‐delivery (‘riders’) in China, we provide quantitative evidence workers' ambivalent subjective experiences that complements predominantly qualitative account extant literature. In particular, assess complex relationships between meaningfulness work, autonomy at self‐perceived competence, well‐being. Our data also show stress‐buffering effect social support mainly comes from riders' familial contact their online group chat other workers. Overall, despite well‐documented precarity stress riders our sample appear be able mobilize inner relational resources achieve relatively high‐level
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: New Technology Work and Employment
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0268-1072', '1468-005X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12243