Drawing on Cybernetic Big Five Theory, we propose that chronic job insecurity is associated with an increase in neuroticism and decreases in agreeableness and conscientiousness (the 3 traits that reflect stability). Data collected from 1,046 employees participating in the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey over a 9-year period were analyzed. Job insecurity and the other job-related variables (i.e., job control, time demand, and job stress) were measured in all years, and personality was measured at the first, fifth, and ninth years. We applied latent trait-state-occasion modeling and specified models using variables across two timeframes (from Time 1 to Time 4 and from Time 5 to Time 9). Results showed that chronic job insecurity over four or five preceding years predicted a small increase in neuroticism and a small decrease in agreeableness in both timeframes, and a small decrease in conscientiousness in the first timeframe. We also found that chronic job stress explained the association between chronic job insecurity and the increase in neuroticism, but not changes in other personality traits, in the first timeframe. Similar results were obtained when the entire 9-year timeframe was examined. The results generally showed null effects of chronic job insecurity with regard to extraversion and openness (the traits that reflect plasticity). This study suggests that job insecurity has important implications for one's personality when experienced over a long-term period. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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长期工作不安全感对大五人格改变的影响。

借鉴控制论大五理论，我们提出长期工作不安全感与神经质的增加以及宜人性和尽责性（反映稳定性的 3 个特征）的减少有关。对参与澳大利亚家庭、收入和劳动力动态调查的 1,046 名员工在 9 年期间收集的数据进行了分析。工作不安全感和其他与工作相关的变量（即工作控制、时间需求和工作压力）在所有年份都进行了测量，个性在第一年、第五年和第九年进行了测量。我们使用两个时间范围内的变量（从时间 1 到时间 4 以及从时间 5 到时间 9）应用了潜在特征-状态-场合建模和指定模型。结果表明，前四五年的长期工作不安全感预示着两个时间段内神经质的小幅增加和宜人性的小幅下降，以及第一个时间段内的尽责性小幅下降。我们还发现，长期工作压力解释了长期工作不安全感与神经质增加之间的关联，但不能在第一时间段内解释其他人格特征的变化。当检查整个 9 年时间框架时，获得了类似的结果。结果通常表明，长期工作不安全感对外向性和开放性（反映可塑性的特征）的影响为零。这项研究表明，长期经历工作不安全感对一个人的性格有重要影响。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，