The Precariat Scale (PRESC): a psychometric tool for assessing precarity across mental, occupational, and sociocultural dimensions
Ahmet Keser, Müjgan Şahin, Yunus Gokmen · 2026
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Ahmet Keser and co-authors develop a scale in 2026 to measure precarity, the insecure state of workers without steady jobs or income. The idea of a precariat class has drawn wide debate since 2011, but no tested measurement tool existed. Their scale covers mental, job, and social sides of insecurity. The paper reviews the debate, builds the scale step by step, and tests it on a sizable mixed sample.
Results on validity and reliability are reported in full. A sound scale lets researchers compare insecurity across groups and track how policy shifts it. It also gives the precariat debate a shared measuring stick. Future studies can now test claims about this class with numbers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ahmet Keser, Müjgan Şahin, Yunus Gokmen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |