When Minor Insecurities Project Large Shadows: A Profile Analysis of Cognitive and Affective Job Insecurity

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• Journal Article:
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• Personal Author:
  DiStaso, Michael ; Gebben, Alissa ; Naranjo, Anthony ; Shoss, Mindy ; Su, Shiyang
• Description:
  People are generally thought to worry about potential job loss to the extent to which they view job loss as likely to occur. However, might there be some individuals for whom job loss may be so detrimental that they experience high levels of worry even if they view job loss as less likely? To answer this question, the present study leveraged research on future-oriented cognition to investigate profiles of cognitive and affective job insecurity (JI). We examined how economic job dependency relates to different profiles of JI experiences as well as the implications of these profiles for understanding heterogeneity in work strain. Latent profile analysis using the U.S. International Social Survey Program data set, and replicated in the U.K. data set, revealed three profiles: Employees who are secure in their role and do not worry about potential job loss (secure alignment profile), those who worry significantly about job loss despite perceiving minimal job threats (affective JI misalignment profile), and employees who worry to some extent and perceive minimal job threats (ambivalent JI alignment profile). As anticipated, several economic job dependence factors (perceived employability and education) were predictors of profile membership. Further, those in the affective JI misalignment profile reported the greatest amount of strain. We discuss our results in terms of implications for JI theory and organizational practice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Anxiety Cognition Economics Employment Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Cognitive Job Insecurity; Affective Job Insecurity; Latent Profile Analysis; Work Strain Employees; Employee Satisfaction; Job Stress; Work Organization; Economic Impact; Workers;
• Source:
  J Occup Health Psychol 2021 Oct; 26(5):421-436
• ISSN:
  1076-8998
• Pubmed ID:
  34323558
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8817671
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  T42 OH008438/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T42OH008438/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  33 pdf pages
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064821
• Contact Point Address:
  Anthony Naranjo, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 161390, Orlando, FL 32816-1390, United States
• Email:
  anaranj2@knights.ucf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f2428abb17e4ee0d41da14dd69d7f430beb2316e0f5c9200e58796d17eb2f7f1dc68da22934dd3db0ea77a7d3c64c0a9efab0273fee68e0488c10acf4c00e65
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114126/cdc_114126_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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