Mahmoud, Ali B. and Reisel, William D. and Hack-Polay, Dieu and Fuxman, Leonora (2021) No one is safe! But who's more susceptible? Locus of control moderates pandemic perceptions' effects on job insecurity and psychosocial factors amongst MENA hospitality frontliners: a PLS-SEM approach. BMC public health, 21 (1). ISSN 1471-2458
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Abstract
<h4>Background</h4>The research aimed to formulate and test a model concerning COVID-19 perceptions effects on job insecurity and a set of psychosocial factors comprising anxiety, depression, job burnout and job alienation in the Middle East and North African (hereafter, MENA) regional context. Also, the study attempted to examine whether locus of control can moderate these hypothesised linkages amongst customer service employees working in MENA hospitality organisations.<h4>Methods</h4>The study is based on a sample of 885 responses to an online survey and Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM).<h4>Results</h4>The main findings show the existence of a significant correlation between COVID perceptions and job insecurity and all psychosocial factors, i.e., more intense COVID-19 perceptions accompany higher levels of job insecurity, anxiety, depression, job burnout and job alienation. Furthermore, our results revealed that, in pandemic time, hospitality customer service employees with external locus of control are more likely to suffer higher alienation, anxiety and depression than those with internal locus of control.<h4>Conclusions</h4>The research originality centres on the establishment that COVID-19 has a severe negative impact within the hospitality customer service labour force (in the MENA region). These effects were more profound for participants who claimed external locus of control than those with internal locus of control.
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| Additional Information: | ** From Europe PMC via Jisc Publications Router ** History: ppub 01-11-2021; epub 06-11-2021. ** Licence for this article: cc by |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Personality, Psychosocial factors, Individual Differences, Middle East, Locus Of Control, North Africa, Hospitality Sector, Job Insecurity, Covid-19, Humans, Least-Squares Analysis, Internal-External Control, Perception, Job Satisfaction, Employment, Pandemics, Latent Class Analysis, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Institutes and Academies > Institute of Management and Health > Business, Finance and Management |
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| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2022 11:41 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2023 12:46 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1871 |
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