IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ecoind/v31y2010i2p195-214.html

Job insecurity influence on job performance and mental health: Testing the moderating effect of the need for closure

Author

Listed:
  • Antonio Chirumbolo

    (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, chirumbolo@uniroma1.it)

  • Alessandra Areni

    (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Abstract

The moderating effect of the need for closure in the relationship between job insecurity, job performance and mental health was investigated. The need for closure refers to a motivated need for certainty, intolerance of ambiguity and preference for predictability. It was argued that the need for closure may function as a psychological moderator in dealing with job insecurity. Participants comprised 287 workers, who were administered a self-reported questionnaire. Results confirmed the negative relationship between job insecurity, performance and mental health. The need for closure was positively related to job performance and unrelated to mental health. More interestingly, the need for closure exhibited multifaceted patterns of interactions with the different components of job insecurity. Higher need for closure revealed a buffering effect in conditions of higher quantitative job insecurity. In this case, individuals high (vs low) in the need for closure reported better job performance and mental health. Conversely, when qualitative job insecurity was higher, individuals high (vs low) in the need for closure reported an impaired job performance and mental health.

Suggested Citation

  • Antonio Chirumbolo & Alessandra Areni, 2010. "Job insecurity influence on job performance and mental health: Testing the moderating effect of the need for closure," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 31(2), pages 195-214, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:31:y:2010:i:2:p:195-214
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09358368
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X09358368
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0143831X09358368?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Edoardo Lozza & Cinzia Castiglioni & Andrea Bonanomi, 2020. "The effects of changes in job insecurity on daily consumption and major life decisions," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 41(3), pages 610-629, August.
    2. Antonio Chirumbolo & Antonino Callea & Flavio Urbini, 2025. "The assessment of job insecurity: Dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the Multidimensional Job Insecurity Questionnaire – Revised (MJIQ-R)," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 46(3), pages 742-765, August.
    3. Kathleen Otto & Anja Hoffmann-Biencourt & Gisela Mohr, 2011. "Is there a buffering effect of flexibility for job attitudes and work-related strain under conditions of high job insecurity and regional unemployment rate?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 32(4), pages 609-630, November.
    4. Anne Balz & Karin Schuller, 2021. "Always looking for something better? The impact of job insecurity on turnover intentions: Do employables and irreplaceables react differently?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 42(1), pages 142-159, February.
    5. Asma Begum & Mathew Shafaghi & Ayesha Adeel, 2025. "Impact of Job Insecurity on Work–Life Balance during COVID-19 in India," Vision, , vol. 29(3), pages 353-374, June.
    6. Prodromos D. Chatzoglou & Anastasios Diamantidis & Konstantina Papantoni, 2025. "Uncovering the Relationship Between Employee Emotions and Occupational Well-Being During Economic Crises," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 50(1), pages 61-81, February.
    7. Antonino Callea & Flavio Urbini & Emanuela Ingusci & Antonio Chirumbolo, 2016. "The relationship between contract type and job satisfaction in a mediated moderation model: The role of job insecurity and psychological contract violation," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 37(2), pages 399-420, May.
    8. Edoardo Lozza & Chiara Libreri & Albino Claudio Bosio, 2013. "Temporary employment, job insecurity and their extraorganizational outcomes," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 34(1), pages 89-105, February.
    9. Dave Stynen & Anneleen Forrier & Luc Sels & Hans De Witte, 2015. "The relationship between qualitative job insecurity and OCB: Differences across age groups," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 36(3), pages 383-405, August.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:31:y:2010:i:2:p:195-214. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ekhist.uu.se/english.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.