COVID‐19 lockdown anxiety harms newcomers' job satisfaction: A cross‐lagged panel analysis during snap lockdowns in China-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

COVID‐19 lockdown anxiety harms newcomers' job satisfaction: A cross‐lagged panel analysis during snap lockdowns in China

Published:2023-05-17 Issue:8 Volume:17 Page:
ISSN:1751-9004
Container-title:Social and Personality Psychology Compass
language:en
Short-container-title:Social & Personality Psych

Author:

Liu Su¹,Zheng Lu¹^ORCID,Scott English Alexander²^ORCID,Talhelm Thomas³,Sun Junjie⁴,Xu Shuhong⁴

Affiliation:

1. School of Management Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan China

2. School of Psychology Wenzhou‐Kean University Wenzhou China

3. Booth School of Business University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA

4. School of English Studies Shanghai International Studies University Shanghai China

Abstract

AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic may have been a difficult time to join a new organization. Drawing on the feelings‐as‐information theory, this study explores how COVID‐19 lockdown anxiety influenced newcomers' job satisfaction during their first few months of work. We tested 357 new employees working in 84 cities across China. We conducted a longitudinal study, and participants were invited to complete the same survey at two time points. Cross‐lagged panel analysis was conducted to test our hypotheses. We confirmed that COVID‐19 lockdown anxiety at Time 1 predicted less job satisfaction at Time 2, whereas the data did not support the idea of reverse causality. These findings suggest public health crises like the pandemic can impact newcomers' job satisfaction, especially during China's Zero‐Covid Policy.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Social Psychology

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