School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Work. 2021;68(2):269-283. doi: 10.3233/WOR-205017.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the social environment of most laborers around the world and has profoundly affected people's ontological security and behavior choices. Among them, the migrant workers are one of the groups most affected by the pandemic.
This study explored the mechanism of the impact of the scarcity of ontological security caused by the pandemic on the risk-taking tendency of migrant workers in China through two studies.
This study adopts two experimental method, with 514 participants in the first study and 357 participants in the second study.
The results show that the pandemic-induced scarcity perception of ontological security promotes their risk-taking tendency, and the migrant workers' cognitive reflection ability, sense of unfairness and expected benefits play a significant mediating role in this process. The scarcity perception of ontological security promotes migrant workers' risk-taking tendency by reducing the cognitive reflection ability, triggering the sense of unfairness and overstating expected benefits.
The conclusion of this study can help migrant workers, enterprises and government to avoid potential workplace and social bad behavior.
COVID-19 大流行改变了全球大多数劳动者的社会环境，深刻影响了人们的本体安全感和行为选择。其中，农民工是受疫情影响最大的群体之一。
本研究通过两项研究探讨了由疫情引起的本体安全感匮乏对中国农民工风险倾向的影响机制。
本研究采用两种实验方法，第一项研究有 514 名参与者，第二项研究有 357 名参与者。
研究结果表明，疫情引起的本体安全感匮乏感促进了他们的风险倾向，而农民工的认知反射能力、不公平感和预期收益在这一过程中起着显著的中介作用。本体安全感的匮乏感通过降低认知反射能力、引发不公平感和夸大预期收益来促进农民工的风险倾向。
本研究的结论可以帮助农民工、企业和政府避免潜在的工作场所和社会不良行为。
