Worker resilience during the COVID-19 crisis: The role of core beliefs challenge, emotion regulation, and family strain

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110784

Personality and Individual Differences

Volume 179, September 2021, 110784

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Highlights

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The positive association between workers' core beliefs challenge and resilience
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Cognitive reappraisal mediated the relationship between core beliefs challenge and resilience.
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Family strain negatively moderated the effects of core beliefs challenge.

Abstract

It is crucial to understand how to promote workforce resilience to a crisis such as the COVID-19 outbreak. The main aim of this study is to examine the role of workers' core beliefs challenge in fostering their resilience. Core beliefs challenge is the constructive rebuilding of an individual's fundamental assumptions about life, the world, the self and others. The data were collected from 672 tourism employees during the pandemic crisis. The results revealed the positive association between workers' core beliefs challenge and their resilience. Cognitive reappraisal was detected as a mediator for the relationship between core beliefs challenge and resilience, while evidence was not found for the mediating role of expressive suppression for such a relationship. Family strain negatively moderated the links between core beliefs challenge and both emotion regulation strategies. Discussions on theoretical and practical implications are displayed.

Keywords

Resilience

Core beliefs challenge

Emotion regulation

Family strain

COVID-19

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Luu Trong Tuan is currently a senior lecturer at Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia. He received his master's degree from Victoria University, Australia and PhD degree in management from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. His research interests include organizational behavior and human resource management in both private and public sector. Widely published his research has appeared in refereed academic journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Public Management Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Personnel Review, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Business Research, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Tourism Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology & Marketing, among others.

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