Job insecurity is no longer a temporary setback but an experience that many workers endure for prolonged periods of time during their career. While there is much research on the behaviors that may help workers to cope with the negative consequences of job insecurity (i.e., reactive coping), insight into behaviors that may help workers to minimize or even prevent the experience of job insecurity itself is still minimal (i.e., proactive coping). Yet, such insight is crucial to advance our knowledge on the dynamics of job insecurity and may offer an alternative strategy to help workers manage the experience of job insecurity during their career. Hence, in this 5-wave weekly survey study among 266 workers, we view the experience of job insecurity as an ongoing process that may fluctuate over time and investigated whether proactive coping (career planning, scenario thinking, career consultation, networking, and reflecting) could help workers to minimize their future job insecurity. Multilevel path analyses showed that weekly proactive coping behaviors were either unrelated or positively (rather than negatively) related to job insecurity in the following week, indicating that positive outcomes of proactive coping may need more time to establish. Additionally, we explored whether coping behaviors that are proactive in theory could also function as reactive coping behaviors (i.e., could buffer the negative consequences of job insecurity). Results showed no buffering effects, indicating that theoretically proactive coping behaviors did not function reactively. We discuss that prolonged proactive coping efforts are needed in contemporary careers, despite the short-term discomfort.

工作不安全感不再是暂时的挫折，而是许多工人在其职业生涯中长期忍受的经历。虽然有很多关于可以帮助工人应对工作不安全感的负面后果的行为（即反应性应对）的研究，但对可以帮助工人减少甚至防止工作不安全感本身的体验的行为的洞察力仍然很少。即主动应对）。然而，这种洞察力对于增进我们对工作不安全动态的了解至关重要，并且可能提供一种替代策略来帮助工人管理其职业生涯中的工作不安全体验。因此，在这项针对 266 名工人的 5 波每周调查研究中，我们将工作不安全感的经历视为一个持续的过程，可能会随着时间的推移而波动，并调查了主动应对（职业规划、情景思考、职业咨询、网络和反思）是否可以帮助工人最大限度地减少他们未来的工作不安全感。多层次路径分析表明，每周主动应对行为与下一周的工作不安全感无关或正（而非负）相关，表明主动应对的积极结果可能需要更多时间来建立。此外，我们探讨了理论上积极主动的应对行为是否也可以作为反应性应对行为（即，可以缓冲工作不安全感的负面后果）。结果显示没有缓冲作用，表明理论上主动应对行为并没有反应性地起作用。我们讨论了在当代职业中需要长期积极的应对努力，尽管有短期的不适。