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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

The Threat of COVID-19 and Job Insecurity Impact on Depression and Anxiety: An Empirical Study in the USA.

Bojan Obrenovic, Jianguo Du, Danijela Godinic, Mohammed Majdy M Baslom, Diana Tsoy

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Bojan ObrenovicSchool of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Jianguo DuSchool of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Danijela GodinicFaculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Mohammed Majdy M BaslomHunan University, Changsha, China.
Diana TsoySchool of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Jiangsu University · CNHunan University · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CNUniversity of Zagreb · HR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic causes a general concern regarding the overall mental health of employees worldwide, policymakers across nations are taking precautions for curtailing and scaling down dispersion of the coronavirus. In this study, we conceptualized a framework capturing recurring troublesome elements of mental states such as depression and general anxiety, assessing them by applying standard clinical inventory. The study explores the extent to which danger control and fear control under the Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM) threat impact job insecurity, with uncertainty phenomenon causing afflicting effect on the experiential nature of depression heightened by anxiety. With the aim to explore the job insecurity relationship with anxiety and depression, and measure the impact of EPPM threat, an empirical study was conducted in the United States on a sample of 347 white collar employees. Demographic data, EPPM threat, job insecurity, anxiety, and depression data were collected

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anxietyCOVID-19depressionEPPM modelEPPM threatjob insecuritymood disorders

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