Journal article
Catch Me If I Fall! Enacted Uncertainty Avoidance and the Social Safety Net as Country-Level Moderators in the Job Insecurity-Job Attitudes Link
Journal of applied psychology, Vol.97(3), pp.690-698
05/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104997
PMID: 22448808
Abstract
Job insecurity is related to many detrimental outcomes, with reduced job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment being the 2 most prominent reactions. Yet, effect sizes vary greatly, suggesting the presence of moderator variables. On the basis of Lazarus's cognitive appraisal theory, we assumed that country-level enacted uncertainty avoidance and a country's social safety net would affect an individual's appraisal of job insecurity. More specifically, we hypothesized that these 2 country-level variables would buffer the negative relationships between job insecurity and the 2 aforementioned job attitudes. Combining 3 different data sources, we tested the hypotheses in a sample of 15,200 employees from 24 countries by applying multilevel modeling. The results confirmed the hypotheses that both enacted uncertainty avoidance and the social safety net act as cross-level buffer variables. Furthermore, our data revealed that the 2 cross-level interactions share variance in explaining the 2 job attitudes. Our study responds to calls to look at stress processes from a multilevel perspective and highlights the potential importance of governmental regulation when it comes to individual stress processes.
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- Title
- Catch Me If I Fall! Enacted Uncertainty Avoidance and the Social Safety Net as Country-Level Moderators in the Job Insecurity-Job Attitudes Link
- Creators
- Maike E Debus - Department of Psychology, Universität Zürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandTahira M Probst - Department of Psychology, Washington State University VancouverCornelius J König - Department of Psychology, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, GermanyMartin Kleinmann - Department of Psychology, Universität Zürich
- Contributors
- Steve W. J Kozlowski (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied psychology, Vol.97(3), pp.690-698
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 99900546862601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article