The Effects of Job Insecurity of Flying Trainees Caused by Pandemic on the Job-Seeking Efficacy: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Major Satisfaction

Abstract

This study examines how job insecurity affects the job search effectiveness of flight trainees and explores the moderating role of job satisfaction. Surveying 306 flight trainees from universities and private institutions, the research reveals that job insecurity significantly impairs their ability to gather job-related information and cope with challenging situations. Job satisfaction moderates the relationship between job insecurity and specific job-related anxieties, providing a buffer against negative impacts. This study uniquely focuses on flight trainees and highlights the importance of reducing job insecurity to improve their job search efficacy, emphasizing the positive influence of job satisfaction in this context. First, the effect of job insecurity of flight trainees on job search efficacy was analyzed. First, as a result of analyzing the effect of flight trainees' job insecurity on job understanding among job insecurity factors, job insecurity and job insecurity among flight trainees have a significant negative effect on job information. Second, the moderating effect of job satisfaction on the effect of job insecurity on job search efficacy of flight trainees was analyzed. First, major satisfaction did not have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between job anxiety and job anxiety among the sub-factors of job anxiety, but there was a significant moderating effect on the relationship between job anxiety and job anxiety. This study differed from previous studies in the subject of the survey by applying it to flight trainees in empirical analysis of the impact of job insecurity on job search efficacy. Furthermore, the academic significance of this study can be found in that it has been verified through empirical analysis that job satisfaction can have a positive effect on job search efficacy by verifying the moderating effect of job satisfaction on job satisfaction. Key Words : Job Insecurity, Job Search Efficacy, Major Satisfaction, Job Understanding, Flight Trainees.