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I Cannot Afford to Have a Life: Employee Adaptation to Feelings of Job Insecurity
Author(s) -
Boswell Wendy R.,
OlsonBuchanan Julie B.,
Harris T. Brad
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/peps.12061
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , job insecurity , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , work (physics) , perception , adaptation (eye) , psychological adaptation , emotional exhaustion , job attitude , job satisfaction , applied psychology , job performance , burnout , clinical psychology , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , engineering
This study examines the links between employee perceptions of job insecurity, the work–nonwork interface, and stress‐related outcomes. Drawing on an adaptation perspective, we expect employees feeling greater job insecurity to engage in adaptive work behaviors including less use of work–nonwork support programs and greater willingness to let work permeate into one's personal life, which in turn will associate with greater work–nonwork conflict and emotional exhaustion. Data were collected from employees within a large energy company at 2 points in time. Results support the model, offering important insights into employee behavioral responses to job insecurity and key mechanisms through which insecurity may foster diminished employee well‐being.