How job insecurity affects emotional exhaustion? A study of job insecurity rumination and psychological capital during COVID-19

Konkel Marta and Heffernan Margaret ()
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Konkel Marta: DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
Heffernan Margaret: DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

The Irish Journal of Management, 2021, vol. 40, issue 2, 86-99

Abstract: Drawing on conservation of resources theory (COR), this study takes a nuanced approach to understanding job insecurity by proposing rumination as a mediator in its relationship with well-being during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The moderating role of psychological capital as a resource to buffer this negative relationship is also explored. A cross sectional study of employees in Ireland during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic found that job insecurity rumination mediated the relationship between affective job insecurity and emotional exhaustion. There was no support for the hypothesis that psychological capital could moderate the relationship between job insecurity and emotional exhaustion. Thus, this research advances the job insecurity literature by identifying a potential mediator and moderator in the process of how employees may experience job insecurity particularly during a global pandemic.

Keywords: Job insecurity; emotional exhaustion; COVID-19; job insecurity rumination; psychological capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/ijm-2021-0009

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