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Coping with economic stress: Introduction to the special issue
Author(s) -
Klehe UteChristine,
Vianen Annelies E. M.,
Zikic Jelena
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.1816
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , unemployment , psychology , psychological intervention , job insecurity , social psychology , economics , economic growth , clinical psychology , engineering , psychiatry , electrical engineering , sense (electronics)
Summary This special issue presents five papers, four empirical and one conceptual, on how people deal with different forms and stages of economic stress. Three manuscripts address coping with job insecurity in one's regular job or in the context of self‐employment. These papers focus on the multidimensional nature and the development of insecurity over time, personal and social resources, along with organizational interventions that are helpful in minimizing the aversive effects of insecurity. The remaining two papers address respondents' coping with unemployment and factors that may either motivate people to seek help and search for reemployment or that turn unemployed workers into discouraged workers who are giving up in the face of their dire situation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.