Predictors of depression, stress, and anxiety among non-tenure track faculty - Gretchen M. Reevy and Grace Deason, Frontiers in Psychology

Nationwide in the United States, 70% of faculty members in higher education are employed off the tenure-track. Nearly all of these non-tenure-track (NTT) appointments share a quality that may produce stress for those who hold them: contingency. Most NTT appointments are contingent on budget, enrollment, or both, and the majority of contingent faculty members are hired for one quarter or semester at a time. Significant research has investigated the effects of contingency on teaching, students, departments, colleges, and universities; however, little research has focused on the psychological experiences of NTT faculty. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00701/full