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The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping()
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger concerns about loss of employment and changes in work conditions, and thereby increase job insecurity. Yet, little is known about how perceived job insecurity subsequently unfolds over time and how individual differences in habitual coping moderate such...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9531324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103792 |
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author | El Khawli, Elissa Keller, Anita C. Agostini, Maximilian Gützkow, Ben Kreienkamp, Jannis Leander, N. Pontus Scheibe, Susanne |
author_facet | El Khawli, Elissa Keller, Anita C. Agostini, Maximilian Gützkow, Ben Kreienkamp, Jannis Leander, N. Pontus Scheibe, Susanne |
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description | Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger concerns about loss of employment and changes in work conditions, and thereby increase job insecurity. Yet, little is known about how perceived job insecurity subsequently unfolds over time and how individual differences in habitual coping moderate such a trajectory. Using longitudinal data from 899 US-based participants across 5 waves (March to June 2020), we investigated the trajectory of job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this trajectory depended on habitual coping strategies such as planning, reappraisal, and distraction. Results from latent growth curve analysis indicated that, on average, job insecurity initially increased and then decreased after signing of the coronavirus stimulus bill, suggesting a pattern of shock followed by adjustment. During the shock phase, habitual use of distraction was related to less increases in job insecurity. Later during the adjustment phase, decreases in job insecurity were more pronounced for individuals with higher habitual use of planning, but were not affected by reappraisal or distraction. Hence, different coping strategies appear beneficial in different phases of adjustment, and the beneficial effect of planning may take time to manifest. Altogether, our study highlights how in the context of extraordinary and uncontrollable events, coping strategies can impact the trajectory of a stressor. |
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spelling | pubmed-95313242022-10-04 The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() El Khawli, Elissa Keller, Anita C. Agostini, Maximilian Gützkow, Ben Kreienkamp, Jannis Leander, N. Pontus Scheibe, Susanne J Vocat Behav Article Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger concerns about loss of employment and changes in work conditions, and thereby increase job insecurity. Yet, little is known about how perceived job insecurity subsequently unfolds over time and how individual differences in habitual coping moderate such a trajectory. Using longitudinal data from 899 US-based participants across 5 waves (March to June 2020), we investigated the trajectory of job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this trajectory depended on habitual coping strategies such as planning, reappraisal, and distraction. Results from latent growth curve analysis indicated that, on average, job insecurity initially increased and then decreased after signing of the coronavirus stimulus bill, suggesting a pattern of shock followed by adjustment. During the shock phase, habitual use of distraction was related to less increases in job insecurity. Later during the adjustment phase, decreases in job insecurity were more pronounced for individuals with higher habitual use of planning, but were not affected by reappraisal or distraction. Hence, different coping strategies appear beneficial in different phases of adjustment, and the beneficial effect of planning may take time to manifest. Altogether, our study highlights how in the context of extraordinary and uncontrollable events, coping strategies can impact the trajectory of a stressor. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-12 2022-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9531324/ /pubmed/36213623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103792 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article El Khawli, Elissa Keller, Anita C. Agostini, Maximilian Gützkow, Ben Kreienkamp, Jannis Leander, N. Pontus Scheibe, Susanne The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title | The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title_full | The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title_fullStr | The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title_full_unstemmed | The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title_short | The rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: The role of habitual coping() |
title_sort | rise and fall of job insecurity during a pandemic: the role of habitual coping() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9531324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103792 |
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