Review of 30 years of longitudinal studies on the association between job insecurity and health and well‐being: Is there causal evidence?

H De Witte, J Pienaar, N De Cuyper - Australian Psychologist, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective In this review article, we present an overview of the results of longitudinal studies
on the consequences of job insecurity for health and well‐being. We discuss the evidence …

Job insecurity: Review of the international literature on definitions, prevalence, antecedents and consequences

H De Witte - SA journal of Industrial Psychology, 2005 - journals.co.za
This article reviews the literature on job insecurity. After defining the concept and its
components, the prevalence of job insecurity among workers is discussed. Next, various …

Job embeddedness and voluntary turnover in the face of job insecurity

V Peltokorpi, DG Allen - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Two important contributions to the understanding of voluntary turnover are the ideas that
employees become embedded in a net or web of restraining forces on‐and off‐the‐job and …

The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries

T Vander Elst, H De Witte… - European Journal of Work …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple instruments have been developed and used to measure quantitative job insecurity
(ie, insecurity to lose the job as such), often without systematic evaluation of their …

Objective'vssubjective'job insecurity: Consequences of temporary work for job satisfaction and organizational commitment in four European countries

H De Witte, K Näswall - Economic and industrial democracy, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
This contribution analyses whether temporary work and (the subjective perception of) job
insecurity are associated with a reduction in job satisfaction and organizational commitment …

The impact of job insecurity and contract type on attitudes, well‐being and behavioural reports: a psychological contract perspective

N De Cuyper, H De Witte - Journal of occupational and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Research on the impact of job insecurity for temporary employees has been largely
exploratory and atheoretical in nature. This paper addresses this issue by considering the …

Workplace bullying as an antecedent to job insecurity and intention to leave: a 6‐month prospective study

M Glambek, SB Matthiesen, J Hetland… - Human Resource …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Workplace bullying is a severe problem in contemporary working life, affecting up to 15 per
cent of employees. Among the detrimental outcomes of bullying, it is even postulated as a …

Job insecurity, health and well-being

H De Witte, T Vander Elst, N De Cuyper - Sustainable working lives …, 2015 - Springer
The current chapter reviews the literature on the relationship between job insecurity and
employees' health and well-being. Job insecurity is defined as (subjective) concerns about …

Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

M Virtanen, ST Nyberg, GD Batty, M Jokela, K Heikkilä… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To determine the association between self reported job insecurity and incident
coronary heart disease. Design A meta-analysis combining individual level data from a …

Job insecurity in temporary versus permanent workers: Associations with attitudes, well-being, and behaviour

N De Cuyper, H De Witte - Work & Stress, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research suggests that the relationship between job insecurity and psychological
outcomes is more negative among permanent compared with temporary workers. We …