Job insecurity and well-being: Integrating life history and transactional stress theories

• Main Author: SIROLA, Nina
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7458; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8457/viewcontent/sirola_2024_job_insecurity_and_well_being_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The current research proposes and tests a novel model explaining how job insecurity shapes well-being and has consequences for stratification and inequality. I draw on evolutionary life history theory, which proposes that growing up in a poorer versus wealthier environment impacts the sense of contr...