Development and validation of the Job Security Index and the Job Security Satisfaction scale: A classical test theory and IRT approach

By Tahira M. Probst. 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

The relationship between job insecurity and accident under-reporting: A test in two countries (2013, methodology): “Nine items from the Job Security Index (JSI; Probst, 2003) were used to measure employee perceptions of job insecurity.”
The interaction between leader–member exchange and perceived job security in predicting employee altruism and work performance. (2011, background): “Perceived job security and employee performance Perceived job security reflects an employee’s subjective anticipation of employment stability and job continuity within an organization (Probst, 2003).”
Comprehensive Income: Who's Afraid of Performance Reporting? (2010, unknown): “The human resources literature defines job security as the perceived stability and continuance of one’s job, especially in a threatened job situation (e.g., Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt 1984; Probst 2003).”
The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries (2014, background): “Hence, we believe these factors should be left out of the job insecurity measure in order to investigate their relationship with job insecurity as such (Mauno et al., 2001; Probst, 2003; Vander Elst et al., 2011).”
Organizational communication: A buffer in times of job insecurity? (2014, methodology): “The Job Security Satisfaction (JSS) scale (Probst, 2003) was used to measure employee attitudes regarding their job insecurity.”
Cognitive and Affective Job Insecurity: A Meta-Analysis and a Primary Study (2018, methodology): “We measured CJI with the nine-item Job Security Index (Probst, 2003) where we asked participants to assess their future employment using a series of adjectives or short phrases (e.”
Speaking Up When Water Is Murky: An Uncertainty-Based Model Linking Perceived Organizational Politics to Employee Voice (2018, background): “Following this reasoning, we argue that the inhibiting effect of psychological uncertainty on voice is likely to be buffered by individuals’ job features—namely, their perception of job autonomy and job security (Hackman & Oldham, 1980; Probst, 2003).”
Psychological empowerment, job insecurity and employee engagement (2010, background): “Researchers agree that perceived powerlessness (lack of psychological empowerment) is undoubtedly an important variable in the study of job insecurity (Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984; Probst, 2003).”
The Sources of Four Commonly Reported Cutoff Criteria (2006, background): “…Houtman (2003) reported (in reference to the TLI) that “values less than .90 usually mean that the model can be improved substantially” (p. 543), and Probst (2003) wrote that “a general rule of thumb states that models with NNFIs below .90 can be improved upon substantially (Bentler & Bonett,…”
Associations Between Quantitative and Qualitative Job Insecurity and Well-Being (2010, methodology): “This cognitive, probabilistic response format is in keeping with the definition of job insecurity developed by Probst, according to which job insecurity arises when the future of the individual’s job is perceived to be unstable or at risk (Probst 2003).”
Job Insecurity: An Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research (2017, methodology): “Because threats have not yet materialized, JI involves uncertainty (De Witte, 1999; Probst, 2003; Sverke et al., 2002).”