title: Development of perceived job insecurity across two years: associations with antecedents and employee outcomes.
abstract: This 2-year longitudinal study among 848 university employees investigated the individual development of perceived job insecurity (JI) in the context of changes occurring in the Finnish universities during the follow-up time. Adopting a person-oriented approach through latent profile analysis, 8 classes of employees with similar mean levels and mean-level changes in JI were identified. Two of these classes (75% of the participants) indicated stable (low, moderately high) JI, and the remaining 6 classes (25% of the participants) showed change (decreasing, increasing, curvilinear) in the level of JI across time. We then examined possible differences between these classes with respect to individual antecedents and outcomes of JI. Of the antecedents, the type of employment contract distinguished best between the JI classes. Of the outcomes, moderately high stable JI was associated with low stable vigor and high stable levels of exhaustion and turnover intentions across time. In addition, it seemed that a decrease in JI was associated with a decrease in exhaustion and turnover intentions and vice versa. Altogether the findings suggest that developmental JI classes exhibit a substantial amount of heterogeneity, which is simultaneously reflected in occupational well-being.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere.
authors.forename: Ulla
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2578-7271
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kinnunen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mäkikangas
authors.affiliation: School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere.
authors.forename: Saija
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mauno
authors.affiliation: Research Group Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology.
authors.forename: Nele
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7241-9941
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Cuyper
authors.affiliation: Research Group Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: De Witte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult