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        Coping with the threat of potential job loss - Exploring different strategies to cope with job insecurity and its consequences

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        2014
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        Fokkens, N.M.
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        The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the role coping mechanisms can play in influencing the negative outcomes of job insecurity and job insecurity itself. In a society where flexibility is getting increasingly important and people are not certain of having and retaining a job anymore, insecurity increases. People are trying to find ways to deal with this phenomenon and thereby to assure their future. This thesis investigates whether coping mechanisms, like being employable or getting social support, can help in diminishing the effects of this emerging job insecurity. Using data from the European Working Conditions Survey, multiple regression analyses were performed to test the influence of coping mechanisms. The results indicate that especially employability important source in coping with the negative outcomes of job insecurity.
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