Does occupational self-efficacy mediate the relationships between job insecurity and work-related learning? A latent growth modelling approach

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2021-02-24 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2021.1891585

A. Van Hootegem, Magnus Sverke, H. De Witte

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study investigates whether job insecurity is related to employee learning (i.e. the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies/characteristics; KSAOs) and whether occupational self-efficacy functions as a mediating mechanism in this relationship. We used three-wave longitudinal data, with a time lag of six months, collected among Flemish employees (N = 1708), and employed a latent growth curve modelling approach. The results provide support for a dynamic relationship between job insecurity and employee learning. More specifically, changes in employees’ levels (i.e. the slope) of job insecurity were related to changes in occupational self-efficacy. Changes in self-efficacy, in turn, were related to changes in levels of newly acquired KSAOs, in such a way that occupational self-efficacy operated as a mediator between job insecurity and newly acquired KSAOs. These results contribute to the understanding of the relationship between job insecurity and work-related learning, and to the general understanding of the mechanisms linking job insecurity to outcomes.

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职业自我效能是否在工作不安全感与工作相关学习之间起中介作用?潜在增长建模方法

摘要本研究旨在探讨工作不安全感是否与员工学习有关(即知识、技能和胜任力/特征的获取;职业自我效能是否在这一关系中起中介作用。我们使用了从佛兰德员工(N = 1708)中收集的三波纵向数据，其滞后时间为6个月，并采用了潜在增长曲线建模方法。研究结果支持了工作不安全感与员工学习之间的动态关系。更具体地说，员工的工作不安全感水平(即斜率)的变化与职业自我效能感的变化有关。自我效能感的变化反过来又与新获得的KSAOs水平的变化有关，因此，职业自我效能感在工作不安全感和新获得的KSAOs之间起中介作用。这些结果有助于理解工作不安全感与工作相关学习之间的关系，并有助于理解工作不安全感与工作相关学习结果之间的联系机制。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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11.70

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3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.