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Economic stress encompasses numerous and often interrelated stressors – unemployment, underemployment, job insecurity, financial deprivation, and financial stress. Together, these concerns create a heavy burden for workers and their families. While some of these stressors have received extensive research attention, particularly regarding health outcomes, others are understudied, particularly with regard to how they intersect with the workplace. There are several broad areas in which further economic stress research is needed including: (1) the nature of economic stress constructs, (2) the antecedents and consequences of economic stressors, (3) whether and how economic stressors might differ in non-western, non-professional, and other non-traditional samples, (4) the general impact of societal inequity on workers, (5) differences in the impact and experience of economic stress on workers across the life course, (6) relations between and mutual effects of multiple economic stressors, and (7) attention to new economic stressors (e.g., debt complexity, financial fragility).

The goal of this special issue is to publish theoretical and empirical studies that extend literature on these and other aspects of economic stress. Please see the attached PDF for more information about the special issue and submission dates. Please reach out if you have any questions and we hope you consider submitting your work to this special issue.