Unrevealing the Hidden Effects of Job Insecurity: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity

Moral disengagement is an intensely negative reaction that triggers unethical behavior in the workplace. By integrating the conservation of resources and moral disengagement theories, the current research examined how moral disengagement can explain the mechanism through which job insecurity results...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 906896
Main Authors Zhang, Zheng, Waqas, Muhammad, Yahya, Farzan, Qadri, Usman A., Marfoh, Joseph
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 14.07.2022
Subjects
healthcare workers
job insecurity
moral disengagement
moral identity
Psychology
social undermining
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Summary:Moral disengagement is an intensely negative reaction that triggers unethical behavior in the workplace. By integrating the conservation of resources and moral disengagement theories, the current research examined how moral disengagement can explain the mechanism through which job insecurity results in adverse consequences. Furthermore, moral identity was theorized to moderate the hypothesized relationships. The theoretical model was tested by using time-lagged multisource data collected from 425 Chinese employees and their respective supervisors associated with the healthcare sector. The study concluded that job insecurity was positively linked with employees’ moral disengagement, which, in turn, led to coworker undermining behavior. Furthermore, moral identity moderated the relationship between job insecurity, moral disengagement, and coworker undermining such that employees high in moral identity experience less moral disengagement and are less involved in coworker undermining. Theoretical and practical implications along with future research avenues are discussed.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, University of City Island, Cyprus
Reviewed by: Krisada Chienwattanasook, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand; Priyanut Wutti Chupradit, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906896