Precarious Job Makes Me Withdraw? The Role of Job Insecurity and Negative Affect

Shanting Zheng, Tangli Ding, Hao Chen, Yunhong Wu and Wenjing Cai
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Shanting Zheng: School of Tourism and Events, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China
Tangli Ding: School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Hao Chen: College of Economics & Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
Yunhong Wu: School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Wenjing Cai: School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 24, 1-15

Abstract: An expanding “gig” economy has changed the nature of employment; thus, researchers have recently focused on exploring the role of job precariousness in the workplace. However, little research attention has been given to understanding why, how and when job precariousness leads to employees’ negative behavioral outcomes in the service-oriented industry. In the current study, we examined job insecurity as a mediator and employees’ negative affect as a moderator in the relationship between job precariousness and employees’ withdrawal behavior. Using a sample of 472 employees working in Chinese hotels, we found that job precariousness is positively related to employees’ withdrawal behavior by increasing their job insecurity. Moreover, this mediating relationship is conditional on the moderator variable of employees’ negative affect for the path from job insecurity to withdrawal behavior. The importance of these findings for understanding the undesirable behavior outcomes of job precariousness is discussed.

Keywords: job precariousness; job insecurity; withdrawal behavior; negative affect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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