Job insecurity influence on job performance and mental health: Testing the moderating effect of the need for closure

Antonio Chirumbolo and Alessandra Areni
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Antonio Chirumbolo: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, chirumbolo@uniroma1.it
Alessandra Areni: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2010, vol. 31, issue 2, 195-214

Abstract: The moderating effect of the need for closure in the relationship between job insecurity, job performance and mental health was investigated. The need for closure refers to a motivated need for certainty, intolerance of ambiguity and preference for predictability. It was argued that the need for closure may function as a psychological moderator in dealing with job insecurity. Participants comprised 287 workers, who were administered a self-reported questionnaire. Results confirmed the negative relationship between job insecurity, performance and mental health. The need for closure was positively related to job performance and unrelated to mental health. More interestingly, the need for closure exhibited multifaceted patterns of interactions with the different components of job insecurity. Higher need for closure revealed a buffering effect in conditions of higher quantitative job insecurity. In this case, individuals high (vs low) in the need for closure reported better job performance and mental health. Conversely, when qualitative job insecurity was higher, individuals high (vs low) in the need for closure reported an impaired job performance and mental health.

Keywords: job insecurity; job performance; mental health; moderation analysis; need for closure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09358368

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