Acting Proactively to Manage Job Insecurity: How Worrying About the Future of One’s Job May Obstruct Future-Focused Thinking and Behavior
| العنوان: | Acting Proactively to Manage Job Insecurity: How Worrying About the Future of One’s Job May Obstruct Future-Focused Thinking and Behavior |
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| المؤلفون: | Maarten Johannes van Bezouw, Jessie Koen |
| المساهمون: | Arbeids- en Organisatie Psychologie (Psychologie, FMG), FMG |
| المصدر: | Frontiers in Psychology, 12:727363. Frontiers Media S.A. Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media SA, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | media_common.quotation_subject, Mindset, Conservation of resources theory, cognitive functioning, Scarcity, symbols.namesake, Psychology, Matthew effect, job insecurity, Cognitive skill, General Psychology, Original Research, media_common, proactive career behavior, ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION, Job insecurity, Cognition, BF1-990, future focus, income, Feeling, conservation of resources theory, symbols, resource scarcity theory, proactive coping, Social psychology |
| الوصف: | An increasing number of people experience insecurity about the future of their job, making it more important than ever to manage this insecurity. While previous research suggests that proactive coping is a promising way to alleviate job insecurity, we suggest that, paradoxically, it may be particularly difficult to act proactively when feeling emotionally distressed about the future of one’s job. Drawing on the principle of resource scarcity and the Conservation of Resources theory, we propose that affective job insecurity ignites a scarcity mindset that inhibits workers’ future focus and cognitive functioning, thereby undermining proactive career behavior. Additionally, we examine whether income adequacy can compensate for these negative consequences of job insecurity. Results of a three-wave survey study among 108 self-employed professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that initial affective job insecurity was negatively related to cognitive functioning but unrelated to future focus. Yet, the latter relationship was moderated by income adequacy: affective job insecurity was positively related to future focus when participants reported high income adequacy. In turn, future focus was positively related to proactive career behavior, which was subsequently related to lower cognitive job insecurity. Thus, while replicating the finding that workers can proactively manage their cognitive job insecurity, we also showed that initial affective job insecurity may obstruct people’s cognitive functioning. We discuss how our results signal a Matthew effect, in which job insecure people with sufficient means are able to look ahead and proactively build resources to change their career, while job insecure people with insufficient means may fall behind. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 1664-1078 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::faedb3321f625fd73ed2092e22e5049e https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727363 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....faedb3321f625fd73ed2092e22e5049e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16641078 |
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