Occupational well-being as a mediator between job insecurity and turnover intention: Findings at the individual and work department levels |
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Authors: | Saija Mauno Nele De Cuyper Asko Tolvanen Ulla Kinnunen Anne Mäkikangas |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology , University of Jyv?skyl? , Jyv?skyl? , Finland;2. School of Social Sciences and Humanities , University of Tampere , Tampere , Finland saija.mauno@jyu.fi;4. Work Organizational and Personnel Psychology Research Group , K. U. Leuven, Leuven , Belgium;5. Department of Psychology , University of Jyv?skyl? , Jyv?skyl? , Finland;6. School of Social Sciences and Humanities , University of Tampere , Tampere , Finland |
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Abstract: | This study examined the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention by applying occupational well-being (exhaustion, vigour) as a mediator. The study was inspired by two theories: the conservation of resources and emotional contagion theories. We investigated the relationships at the individual and work department levels by utilizing Multi-Level Structural Equation Modeling (ML-SEM) with the aim of clarifying whether the mediating mechanism was similar at both levels. In addition, we examined the relationships across the levels (cross-level interactions). Self-report data for the study were obtained from Finnish University staff (N = 2137 individual respondents from 78 work departments). The analyses resulted in three main findings. First, job insecurity, turnover intention, and occupational well-being were found, to some extent (2–6%), to be shared experiences within work departments. Second, we found that low occupational well-being (high exhaustion, low vigour) partly mediated the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention at both levels of analysis. Third, the results on cross-level interactions revealed that the lower the level of well-being at the work department level, the stronger the negative effect of job insecurity on well-being at the individual level. Thus, if poor well-being characterizes the work department, this may strengthen the negative relationship between job insecurity and well-being at the individual level. |
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Keywords: | Job insecurity Multilevel structural equation modelling Occupational well-being Turnover intention |
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