ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Suffering Job Insecurity: Will the Employees Take the Proactive Behavior or Not?
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- Unpacking the dual psychological paths of employee-AI collaboration on creativity: The role of proactive behavior.PloS one · 2026Article
- AI Substitution Perception and Nurses' Active Learning Behavior: The Mediating Role of Job Insecurity and Moderating Role of Occupational Self-Efficacy.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Team Job Insecurity on Team Resilience.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Effects of Job Insecurity on Psychological Well-Being and Work Engagement: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Integrated Patterns of Subjective Job Insecurity: A Multigroup Person-Centered Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Job Insecurity and Employees' Taking Charge Behaviors: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Unlocking the Effect of Supervisor Incivility on Work Withdrawal Behavior: Conservation of Resource Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Is Job Insecurity Harmful to All Types of Proactivity? The Moderating Role of Future Work Self Salience and Socioeconomic Status.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Job insecurity is considered an important antecedent of an employee's creativity. Though, the relationship between job insecurity and proactive behavior has been neglected in previous human resources management studies. The aim of this study is to explore the influence of job insecurity on employees' proactive behavior and its mechanism. Based on the social cognitive theory and cognitive appraisal theory, two types of cognitive appraisal of employee's job insecurity (hindrance vs. challenge) as mediator variables of job insecurity and proactive behavior association. In addition, the moderator roles of self-efficacy are examined. This study is carried out with 257 employees from Chinese firms to examine the hypothesized moderated mediation model by using the hierarchical regression analysis and the bootstrap. The results showed a different effect of job insecurity depending on its conceptualization. The results show that job insecurity has a negative effect on employees' proactive behavior. At the same time, cognitive appraisal of employees' job insecurity mediated the association between job insecurity and employee's proactive behavior. Self-efficacy not only moderates the relationship between job insecurity and cognitive appraisal but also moderate the cognitive appraisal's mediation effect between job insecurity and proactive behavior. The study's theoretical and practical contributions and future research are discussed.
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