Job insecurity and creativity: The buffering effect of self‐affirmation and work‐affirmation
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: It is well documented that job insecurity is a detrimental work stressor. The literature aimed at counteracting the adverse outcomes of job insecurity has focused on either individual differences, which are less amenable to modification, or organizational‐level interventions, which largely depend on organizational initiatives. This study introduced a self‐affirmation intervention to working adults and examined whether self‐affirmation could weaken the negative association between job insecurity and creativity. In order to enrich self‐affirmation theory and increase the applicability of the intervention to the workplace, this study also investigated whether work‐affirmation could attenuate the negative relationship between job insecurity and creativity. In a quasi‐experiment with employees recruited from Mturk, I found that a negative link between job insecurity and creativity, but not among those who were given an opportunity to affirm one's value (i.e., self‐affirmation) or one's work (i.e., work‐affirmation).
DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12519
Author: Lixin Jiang
Institution: University of Auckland
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2804074182