Employment contract, job insecurity and employees’ affective well-being: The role of self- and collective efficacy

Beatriz Sora, Thomas Höge, Amparo Caballer and José M Peiró
Additional contact information
Beatriz Sora: Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Thomas Höge: University of Innsbruck, Austria
Amparo Caballer: University of Valencia, Spain
José M Peiró: University of Valencia, Spain

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2019, vol. 40, issue 2, 193-214

Abstract: A large amount of research has focused on job insecurity, but without obtaining consistent results. Some authors have pointed that this variability might be due to the operationalization of job insecurity. Different types of job insecurity can provoke different employee reactions. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of job insecurity, understood as temporary employment (objective job insecurity) and personal perception (subjective job insecurity), on affective well-being. In addition, the moderator roles of job self-efficacy and collective efficacy are examined in the relationship between job insecurity and employees’ affective well-being. This study was carried out with 1435 employees from 138 Spanish and Austrian organizations. The results showed a different effect of job insecurity depending on its conceptualization. Only subjective job insecurity was negatively related to affective well-being. Moreover, both self- and collective efficacy moderated the subjective job insecurity–outcomes relation, ameliorating employees’ well-being levels when they perceived job insecurity.

Keywords: Affective well-being; collective efficacy; employment contract; job insecurity; self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X18804659 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:40:y:2019:i:2:p:193-214

DOI: 10.1177/0143831X18804659

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic and Industrial Democracy from Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().