Browsing Research Output by Author "De Cuyper, Nele"
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Coping with job insecurity – exploring effects on perceived health and organizational attitudes
Richter, Anne; Näswall, Katharina; De Cuyper, Nele; Sverke, Magnus; De Witte, Hans (Emerald, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate how employees’ coping (problem, emotion and avoidance focused coping) may affect the reactions to job insecurity. Because the coping investigated in the present ... -
Coping with job insecurity: exploring effects on perceived health and organizational attitudes
Richter, Anne; Sverke, Magnus; De Witte, Hans; Naswall, Katharina; De Cuyper, Nele; Hellgren, Johnny (Emerald, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate how employees’ coping (problem, emotion and avoidance focused coping) may affect the reactions to job insecurity. Because the coping investigated in the present ... -
Coping with job insecurity: exploring effects on perceived health and organizational attitudes
Richter, Anne; Näswall, Katharina; De Cuyper, Nele; Sverke, Magnus; De Witte, Hans; Hellgren, Johnny (Emerald, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate how employees' coping (problem, emotion and avoidance focused coping) may affect the reactions to job insecurity. Because the coping investigated in the present ... -
Cross–lagged associations between perceived external employability, job insecurity, and exhaustion: Testing gain and loss spirals according to the conservation of resources theory
De Cuyper, Nele; Mäkikangas, Anne; Kinnunen, Ulla; Mauno, Saija; De Witte, Hans (Wiley, 2012)This study investigates perceived external employability (PEE) as a personal resource in relation to job insecurity and exhaustion. We advance the idea that PEE may reduce feelings of job insecurity and, through felt job ... -
Cross–lagged associations between perceived external employability, job insecurity, and exhaustion: testing gain and loss spirals according to the conservation of resources theory
De Cuyper, Nele; De Witte, Hans; Mäkikangas, Anne; Kinnunen, Ulla; Mauno, Saija (Wiley, 2012)This study investigates perceived external employability (PEE) as a personal resource in relation to job insecurity and exhaustion. We advance the idea that PEE may reduce feelings of job insecurity and, through felt job ... -
Defining perceived employability: a psychological approach
Vanhercke, Dorien; De Cuyper, Nele; Peeters, Ellen; De Witte, Hans (Emerald, 2014)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define employability within the psychological literature with a focus upon perceived employability. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the aim, the paper defines five objectives ... -
Does positive affect buffer the associations between job insecurity and work engagement and psychological distress? A test among South African workers
Vander Elst, Tinne; De Witte, Hans; Bosman, Jacqueline; De Cuyper, Nele; Stouten, Jeroen (Wiley, 2013)This study aims to respond to earlier calls to study well-known concepts, more specifically, job insecurity, in less traditional (i.e. non-European, non-US) settings, as well as factors that may mitigate the aversive ... -
Does positive affect buffer the associations between job insecurity and work engagement and psychological distress? A test among South African workers
Vander Elst, Tinne; Bosman, Jacqueline; De Cuyper, Nele; Stouten, Jeroen; De Witte, Hans (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This study aims to respond to earlier calls to study well-known concepts, more specifically, job insecurity, in less traditional (i.e. non-European, non-US) settings, as well as factors that may mitigate the aversive ... -
Exemplification and Perceived Job Insecurity
De Cuyper, Nele; Schreurs, Bert; Vander Elst, Tinne; Baillien, Elfi; De Witte, Hans (Hogrefe, 2014)Impression management is typically seen as a means to achieve success. Little is known about potential side effects for the self, or about impression management aimed at prevention of loss. Here, we probe the relationship ... -
Het motivationele proces van het Job Demands-Resources Model bij vrijwillig en onvrijwillig ontslagen werknemers tijdens de opzegtermijn
Peeters, Ellen R.; Van de Ven, Bart; De Cuyper, Nele; Vlerick, Peter; De Witte, Hans (Boom Lemma, 2014)This study examines the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model in a sample of recently dismissed (voluntary and involuntary) Flemish employees (N = 213). Specifically, the relations between three ... -
The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries
Vander Elst, Tinne; De Witte, Hans; De Cuyper, Nele (Taylor & Francis, 2014)Multiple instruments have been developed and used to measure quantitative job insecurity (i.e., insecurity to lose the job as such), often without systematic evaluation of their psychometric characteristics across countries ... -
The mediating role of frustration of psychological needs in the relationship between job insecurity and work related well–being
Vander Elst, Tine; Van den Broeck, Anja; De Witte, Hans; De Cuyper, Nele (Taylor & Francis, 2012)This study aims to test a new process underlying the negative relationship between job insecurity and work-related well-being. Specifically, based on Self-Determination Theory, frustration of the psychological needs for ... -
A multiple-group analysis of associations between emotional exhaustion and supervisor-rated individual performance: temporary versus permanent call-center workers
De Cuyper, Nele; Castanheira, Filipa; De Witte, Hans; Chambel, Maria José (Wiley, 2014)This study investigates whether contract type (temporary versus permanent employment) moderates the relationship between emotional exhaustion and supervisor-rated individual performance. Most temporary workers desire ... -
Perceived control and psychological contract breach as explanations of the relationships between job insecurity, job strain and coping reactions: towards a theoretical integration
Vander Elst, Tinne; De Cuyper, Nele; Baillien, Elfi; Niesen, Wendy; De Witte, Hans (Wiley, 2016)This study aims to further knowledge on the mechanisms through which job insecurity is related to negative outcomes. Based on appraisal theory, two explanations—perceived control and psychological contract breach—were ... -
Perceived employability and performance: moderation by felt job insecurity
De Cuyper, Nele; Sulea, Coralia; Philippaers, Kristien; Fischmann, Gabriel; Iliescu, Dragos; De Witte, Hans (Emerald, 2014)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship perceived employability (the employee's perception about available job opportunities in the external labour market) and performance, accounting for ... -
Perceived employability and psychological functioning framed by gain and loss cycles
Vanhercke, Dorien; Kirves, Kaisa; De Cuyper, Nele; Verbruggen, Marijke; Forrier, Anneleen; De Witte, Hans (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the gain and loss cycle ideas from the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory with regard to perceived employability and psychological functioning among employed workers and ... -
Perception of organization's value support and perceived employability: insights from self-determination theory
Van den Broeck, Anja; De Cuyper, Nele; Baillien, Elfi; Vanbelle, Els; Vanhercke, Dorien; De Witte, Hans (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2014)Perceived employability (PE; i.e. the worker's perception about available job opportunities) is portrayed as the upcoming resource for workers and organizations. However, organizations might particularly want to stimulate ... -
Review of 30 years of longitudinal studies on the association between job insecurity and health and well-being: is there causal evidence?
De Witte, Hans; Pienaar, Jaco; De Cuyper, Nele (Wiley, 2016)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 for normal causation ("Does job ... -
Threat of losing valued job features: The role of perceived control in mediating the effect of qualitative job insecurity on job strain and psychological withdrawal
Vander Elst, Tinne; Richter, Anne; Sverke, Magnus; Näswall, Katharina; De Cuyper, Nele; De Witte, Hans (Taylor &Francis, 2014)Quantitative job insecurity, relating to threat of job loss, has received considerable research attention, but relatively little is known about qualitative job insecurity. The latter relates to uncertainty regarding valued ... -
Threat of losing valued job features: the role of perceived control in mediating the effect of qualitative job insecurity on job strain and psychological withdrawal
Van der Elst, Tinne; Richter, Anne; Sverke, Magnus; Näswall, Katharina; De Cuyper, Nele; De Witte, Hans (Taylor & Francis, 2014)Quantitative job insecurity, relating to threat of job loss, has received considerable research attention, but relatively little is known about qualitative job insecurity. The latter relates to uncertainty regarding valued ...