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Job Insecurity, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Job Search Activities: How Work Locus of Control and Control-Oriented Coping Moderate These Relationships

McInroe, Jennifer A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382741266

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Past research has identified relationships between job insecurity and both organizational citizenship behaviors and job search activities. The current study expanded on that research by examining the moderating effects of two personality and coping variables--work locus of control and control-oriented coping--on the relationships between job insecurity and the two outcome variables: organizational citizenship behaviors and job search activities. Online survey data were collected from a sample of 309 permanent, non-unionized employees in the United States who worked over 30 hours a week. Hierarchical regression analysis identified a negative relationship between job insecurity and organizational citizenship behaviors, as well as a positive relationship between job insecurity and job search activities. Additionally, control-oriented coping interacted with job insecurity in explaining variance in both organizational citizenship behaviors and job search activities. Work locus of control did not interact with job insecurity in explaining incremental variance in organizational citizenship behaviors and job search activities. Practical implications of results and suggestions for research are discussed.
Steve Jex (Committee Chair)
Stefan Fritsch (Committee Member)
William Balzer (Committee Member)
Rob Carels (Committee Member)
138 p.
Psychology
job insecurity; work locus of control; coping; OCB; job search

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  • McInroe, J. A. (2013). Job Insecurity, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Job Search Activities: How Work Locus of Control and Control-Oriented Coping Moderate These Relationships [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382741266

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McInroe, Jennifer. Job Insecurity, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Job Search Activities: How Work Locus of Control and Control-Oriented Coping Moderate These Relationships. 2013. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382741266.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McInroe, Jennifer. "Job Insecurity, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Job Search Activities: How Work Locus of Control and Control-Oriented Coping Moderate These Relationships." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382741266

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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