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The chicken or the egg: The reciprocal relationship between job insecurity and mental health complaints

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  • Griep, Yannick
  • Lukic, Alexandra
  • Kraak, Johannes M.
  • Bohle, Sergio Andrés López
  • Jiang, Lixin
  • Vander Elst, Tinne
  • De Witte, Hans

Abstract

To push the job insecurity literature forward, we bring together and simultaneously examine multiple theoretical frameworks to explain the direct job insecurity-mental health relationship and the reciprocal mental health-job insecurity relationship. Using 3-wave survey data, with a six-month time lag, from 1994 employees, we found that the stability of job insecurity from Time 1 to Time 2 was positively related to stress and social exchange mechanisms, as well as mental health complaints at Time 3. We also found that the stability of mental health complaints from Time 1 to Time 2 was positively related to the conservation of resources mechanism of absenteeism, as well as to perceptions of job insecurity at Time 3. Moreover, the stability of absenteeism over time was positively related to perceptions of job insecurity at Time 3. We discuss implications for the job insecurity literature, as well as make suggestions for future research and practical implications.

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  • Griep, Yannick & Lukic, Alexandra & Kraak, Johannes M. & Bohle, Sergio Andrés López & Jiang, Lixin & Vander Elst, Tinne & De Witte, Hans, 2021. "The chicken or the egg: The reciprocal relationship between job insecurity and mental health complaints," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 170-186.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:126:y:2021:i:c:p:170-186
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.12.045
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    1. Sonia Nawrocka & Hans De Witte & Margherita Pasini & Margherita Brondino, 2023. "A Person-Centered Approach to Job Insecurity: Is There a Reciprocal Relationship between the Quantitative and Qualitative Dimensions of Job Insecurity?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(7), pages 1-27, March.
    2. Högnäs, Robin S. & Bijlsma, Maarten J. & Högnäs, Ulf & Blomqvist, Sandra & Westerlund, Hugo & Hanson, Linda Magnusson, 2022. "It's giving me the blues: A fixed-effects and g-formula approach to understanding job insecurity, sleep disturbances, and major depression," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 297(C).
    3. Felipe Muñoz Medina & Sergio López Bohle & Sebastian M. Ugarte & Maria José Chambel & Erika Wall, 2022. "Employees Perceptions of Job Insecurity and Performance: A Qualitative Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Wang, Chenxiao & Qureshi, Israr & Guo, Feng & Zhang, Qingpu, 2022. "Corporate social responsibility and disruptive innovation: The moderating effects of environmental turbulence," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 1435-1450.

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