Van den Broeck Anja, Van Hootegem Anahí, Vander Elst Tinne, De Witte Hans
KU Leuven (Belgium).
Span J Psychol. 2019 Mar 4;22:E8. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2019.7.
The present study examines an important contemporary stressor: Job insecurity, both in terms of losing one's job as such (i.e. quantitative job insecurity) and losing one's valued job aspects (i.e., qualitative job insecurity). Moreover, we study whether humor assists in offsetting the negative associations of these types of job insecurity with employee well-being. Specifically, by drawing up the conservation of resources theory, self-enhancing and affiliative humor are framed as personal resources buffering the detrimental relationship of both types of job insecurity with burnout (i.e., exhaustion and cynicism) and work engagement (i.e., vigor and dedication) in a large heterogeneous sample of Belgian employees (N = 3,254). Results evidenced the detrimental main effects of quantitative and qualitative job insecurity as well as the beneficial relations of self-enhancing and affilitative humor on burnout and work engagement. In addition, the buffering role of affiliative humor was supported in the relationships of both quantitative and qualitative job insecurity with burnout. Self-enhancing humor only interacted with qualitative job insecurity in the prediction of exhaustion. The discussion centers around the importance of personal resources attenuating the negative associations of quantitative and quantitative job insecurity, and highlights the different roles of humor for employees' work-related well-being.
工作不安全感，包括失去工作本身（即定量工作不安全感）和失去有价值的工作方面（即定性工作不安全感）。此外，我们研究幽默是否有助于抵消这些类型的工作不安全感与员工幸福感之间的负面关联。具体而言，通过运用资源守恒理论，自我提升型幽默和亲和型幽默被视为个人资源，在比利时员工的大量异质样本（N = 3254）中，缓冲这两种类型的工作不安全感与倦怠（即疲惫和玩世不恭）以及工作投入（即活力和奉献精神）之间的有害关系。结果证明了定量和定性工作不安全感的有害主效应，以及自我提升型幽默和亲和型幽默对倦怠和工作投入的有益关系。此外，亲和型幽默在定量和定性工作不安全感与倦怠的关系中起到了缓冲作用。自我提升型幽默仅在预测疲惫时与定性工作不安全感产生交互作用。讨论围绕个人资源减轻定量和定性工作不安全感负面关联的重要性展开，并强调了幽默对员工工作幸福感的不同作用。
