Job Insecurity and Turnover Intention: A Dual-Path Mechanism Study—The Parallel Mediating Roles of Emotional Exhaustion and Organizational Identification

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10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_139How to use a DOI?

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Job Insecurity (Economic/Social); Turnover Intention; Emotional Exhaustion; Organizational Identification; Leader Support; Conservation of Resources Theory

Abstract

Against global economic volatility and technological disruption, job insecurity threatens employee retention in Chinese private enterprises. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, this study examined the effects of economic (material resource threat) and social (social resource threat) job insecurity on turnover intention, tested the parallel mediation of emotional exhaustion (stress path) and organizational identification (identification path), and explored leader support’s moderating role via multi-group analysis (MGA). A cross-sectional survey of 347 valid responses was analyzed using SPSS 26.0 and Mplus 8.3. Results showed: (1) Both job insecurity types positively predicted turnover intention (economic: β = 0.28, p < 0.001; social: β = 0.23, p < 0.001), with economic insecurity stronger; (2) Emotional exhaustion and organizational identification played parallel mediating roles (economic insecurity: 0.16 vs. 0.11; social insecurity: 0.12 vs. 0.14); (3) High leader support halved total mediating effects by weakening links between job insecurity and the two mediators. This study enriches job insecurity literature, extends COR Theory, and provides turnover-reduction strategies.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nannan Zhang
AU  - Shanshan Yan
AU  - Juan Zhang
AU  - Rongli Bai
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/26
TI  - Job Insecurity and Turnover Intention: A Dual-Path Mechanism Study—The Parallel Mediating Roles of Emotional Exhaustion and Organizational Identification
BT  - Proceeding of 2025 8th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1281
EP  - 1288
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-551-5_139
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