Engineering

Job insecurity

Social psychology

Job attitude

Mediation

Economics

Adaptability

Work engagement

Mechanical engineering

Job satisfaction

Psychology

Management

Applied psychology

Political science

Work (physics)

Moderated mediation

Job performance

Core self-evaluations

Frontiers in Psychology

This study examined the moderated mediation roles of job insecurity through career adaptability on the relation between core self-evaluation (CSE) and work engagement. A total of 335 Korean full-time employees who had been employed for <3 years responded to the questionnaire survey. Excluding missing data and outliers, data from 324 participants (men = 82, women = 242) were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and SPSS PROCESS Macro. The results indicated that job insecurity moderated the indirect association between CSE and work engagement via career adaptability. This study further expanded the understanding of newly employed employees' adaptation. Implications and limitations of the study and suggestions for further study were discussed.

Core Self-Evaluation and Work Engagement: Moderated Mediation Model of Career Adaptability and Job Insecurity