Job Insecurity
Dimension 458 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Job Insecurity measures perceived or experienced threat to employment continuity, including job loss, layoffs, forced work changes, and uncertainty about keeping one's position. It encompasses both concrete employment disruption and anticipation that one's role may be reduced, eliminated, or made unstable.
evidence final name · Stress Stress
Minimal Job Insecurity
Expressions activating this band show little to no employment threat, with content that is unrelated, broadly evaluative, or only loosely connected to work circumstances. When employment is mentioned, it appears as ordinary engagement or neutral status rather than risk of loss.
Low Job Insecurity
Expressions activating this band reflect indirect or isolated employment disruption, such as being fired as a past event, mixed with broader life stressors, change discomfort, or questions about success and support. Employment instability is present but not yet framed as an ongoing, central threat.
Moderate Job Insecurity
Expressions activating this band center on concrete employment loss or meaningful threat to continued work, including layoffs, involuntary unemployment, job change, and financial disruption tied to work instability. The experience is one of significant uncertainty and loss of control around employment.
High Job Insecurity
Expressions activating this band portray active risk of dismissal or reduction in work, including being at risk of being fired, laid off, transferred, or having duties or hours changed. Employment threat is immediate and salient, with organizational actions shaping expectations of instability.
Severe Job Insecurity
Expressions activating this band convey imminent or explicit employment termination, such as receiving notice, having a position eliminated, or facing company shutdown or formal layoff action. The experience is one of direct, unavoidable threat to continued employment.
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Minimal Stress Stress: Stress stress is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse stress stress.
Emerging Stress Stress: Stress stress is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where stress stress was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect stress stress at this level of intensity.
Elevated Stress Stress: Stress stress is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where stress stress was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse stress stress.
Severe Stress Stress: Stress stress is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Compared to the band below, stress stress is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse stress stress.