TY - JOUR T1 - An island of sanity during COVID-19 pandemic: Does pet attachment support buffer employees' stress due to job insecurity? AU - Wan,Min Maggie, AU - Kelemen,Thomas K, AU - Zhang,Yejun, AU - Matthews,Samuel H, Y1 - 2022/06/15/ PY - 2022/6/15/entrez PY - 2022/6/16/pubmed PY - 2022/6/16/medline KW - Job insecurity KW - behavioral strain reactions KW - pet attachment support KW - psychological strain reactions KW - stress SP - 332941221109105 EP - 332941221109105 JF - Psychological reports JO - Psychol Rep N2 - Drawing on the transactional theory of stress, the current study investigates whether employee job insecurity triggers employee behavioral strain reactions (i.e., alcohol use, marijuana use, and cigarette use) and psychological strain reactions (i.e., emotional exhaustion and depression) through stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we integrate social support theory and expect the moderating role of pet attachment support in the above relationships. By collecting two-wave data from 187 employees with pets in the United States, we found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, stress mediated the relationships between job insecurity and predicted behavioral and psychological reactions. Moreover, pet attachment support buffered the relationships between stress and these behavioral and psychological strain reactions (all except cigarette use). Pet attachment support also alleviated the conditional indirect effects job insecurity had on the two types of strain reactions via stress. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of this study. SN - 1558-691X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35704899/An_island_of_sanity_during_COVID_19_pandemic:_Does_pet_attachment_support_buffer_employees'_stress_due_to_job_insecurity DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -