Precarious Job Makes Me Withdraw? The Role of Job Insecurity and Negative Affect.

Shanting Zheng,Yunhong Wu,Wenjing Cai,Tangli Ding,Hao Chen

doi:10.3390/ijerph182412999

Abstract

An expanding “gig” economy has changed the nature of employment; thus, researchers have recently focused on exploring the role of job precariousness in the workplace. However, little research attention has been given to understanding why, how and when job precariousness leads to employees’ negative behavioral outcomes in the service-oriented industry. In the current study, we examined job insecurity as a mediator and employees’ negative affect as a moderator in the relationship between job precariousness and employees’ withdrawal behavior. Using a sample of 472 employees working in Chinese hotels, we found that job precariousness is positively related to employees’ withdrawal behavior by increasing their job insecurity. Moreover, this mediating relationship is conditional on the moderator variable of employees’ negative affect for the path from job insecurity to withdrawal behavior. The importance of these findings for understanding the undesirable behavior outcomes of job precariousness is discussed.

Highlights

In recent decades, significant changes have swept the global labor market, the proliferation of precarious work [1,2]
The first is a combination of objective job features—that is, a paid job characterized by second is a subjective experience of precarious work involving the individual, psychologuncertainty, low income and limited social benefits and statutory entitlements
We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for job precariousness, job insecurity, negative affect and withdrawal behavior to evaluate the discriminant validity of the measure in the present research

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Introduction

Significant changes have swept the global labor market, the proliferation of precarious work [1,2]. Vosko [3] defines precarious work as a paid job characterized by uncertainty, low income and limited social benefits and statutory entitlements. The. The first is a combination of objective job features—that is, a paid job characterized by second is a subjective experience of precarious work involving the individual, psychologuncertainty, low income and limited social benefits and statutory entitlements [3]. As a perceptual construct, job jective perception of external conditions has been suggested to be a better predictor of precariousness is defined and measured differently in existing studies [8,14]. We followed by Creed, Hood, Selenko and Bagley [8] has more reliability and validity to adopt their previous studies that have evidenced that the job precariousness scale (JPS) developed by conceptualization and measurement in the current study

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