Precarious job makes me withdraw? The role of job insecurity and negative affect

Shanting Zheng; Tangli Ding; Hao Chen; Yunhong Wu; Wenjing Cai

doi:10.3390/ijerph182412999

Precarious job makes me withdraw? The role of job insecurity and negative affect

Shanting Zheng, Tangli Ding, Hao Chen, Yunhong Wu, Wenjing Cai^*

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Abstract

An expanding “gig” economy has changed the nature of employment; thus, researchers have recently focused on exploring the role of job precariousness in the workplace. However, little research attention has been given to understanding why, how and when job precariousness leads to employees’ negative behavioral outcomes in the service-oriented industry. In the current study, we examined job insecurity as a mediator and employees’ negative affect as a moderator in the relationship between job precariousness and employees’ withdrawal behavior. Using a sample of 472 employees working in Chinese hotels, we found that job precariousness is positively related to employees’ withdrawal behavior by increasing their job insecurity. Moreover, this mediating relationship is conditional on the moderator variable of employees’ negative affect for the path from job insecurity to withdrawal behavior. The importance of these findings for understanding the un-desirable behavior outcomes of job precariousness is discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	12999
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	18
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412999
Publication status	Published - 2 Dec 2021

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Special Issue: Job Insecurity and Precarious Employment as Psychosocial Risk Factors in Contemporary Society.

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Funding: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 72002211) and the USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative (grant number YD2160002010).

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Job insecurity
Job precariousness
Negative affect
Withdrawal behavior

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