This scale measures how strongly a person expects to lose their job because of a particular external event, rather than because of anything they have done themselves. Hita and colleagues (2023) used it in a six-wave longitudinal study of Canadian online panel members tracking attitudes and behaviours during COVID-19. They reworded the general job insecurity items of De Witte (2000; Vander Elst, De Witte, and De Cuyper 2014) so that each statement ties the threat to a named event.
7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)
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Alphas ranged from .90 to .92 across the six measurement waves (Hita et al. 2023, p. 142). Convergent and discriminant validity were supported, with AVEs of .69 to .80 across waves (Web Appendix A). Item 2 is reverse-scored. The blank should name the focal event (e.g., the coronavirus pandemic, a company merger, a poor economy).
Hita, Marie Louise Radanielina, Yany Grégoire, Bruno Lussier, Simon Boissonneault, Christian Vandenberghe, and Sylvain Sénécal (2023), "An Extended Health Belief Model for COVID-19: Understanding the Media-based Processes Leading to Social Distancing and Panic Buying," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 51 (1), 132-152.
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