Facing education reform: Change-related self-efficacy is linked to job insecurity via appraisal

Marta Roczniewska, Malwina Puchalska-Kamińska and Agnieszka Šądka-Barańska
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Marta Roczniewska: SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland; Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Malwina Puchalska-Kamińska: SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Agnieszka Šądka-Barańska: Psychology Department, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, vol. 43, issue 3, 1164-1188

Abstract: Structural education reforms may pose a threat to teachers’ employment, leading to anxiety about the future of their jobs. This study examined the antecedents of job insecurity among Polish teachers ( N = 860) who had been subjected to rapid and major structural education reform in 2017. While previous studies have focused on self-efficacy as a buffer against the negative consequences of job insecurity, here the authors hypothesize that a higher change-related self-efficacy is linked to lower job insecurity via stress appraisal. The results show that self-efficacy is more strongly linked to lower hindrance appraisal than to higher challenge appraisal. Strengthening change-related self-efficacy as a personal resource and attenuating perceptions of change as a hindrance are vital steps in minimizing job insecurity and its effects.

Keywords: Change-related self-efficacy; challenge–hindrance; education reform; job insecurity; stress appraisal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X20975479

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