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What was the purpose of this study?
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From the perspective of resource conservation theory, this study selected 568 enterprise employees as subjects and conducted data collection using a random sampling method to explore the relationship between job insecurity and safe behaviours as well as the role of insomnia and job engagement in this relationship. The results show that (1) job insecurity is negatively correlated with safety behaviour, (2) insomnia mediates the relationship between job insecurity and safety behaviour, (3) work engagement plays a mediating role in the relationship between job insecurity and safety behaviour, and (4) insomnia and work engagement play a serial mediating role in the relationship between job insecurity and safety behaviour.
We speculate that insomnia and work engagement have a certain mediating effect between job insecurity, safety compliance and safety participation; however, whether they are parallel or serial mediating relationships remains to be further verified.
Employees' job insecurity represents their fears and worries about the consistency of their work [9]. Such worries will infiltrate their lives outside of work, affect their sleep quality at night, and lead to insomnia. Sleep, as a basic requirement for human functioning, plays an important role in energy preservation and nervous system recovery [49]. Poor sleep quality will reduce the chances of fatigue recovery and increase drowsiness [50]. This will cause employees to be in a state of exhaustion of resources in the morning, making it difficult for them to concentrate on their work [50], in turn affecting their degree of work engagement during the day [51,52]. Furthermore, a low level of work engagement means low concentration and a low energy level. Low concentration will cause employees to ignore safety regulations and reduce compliance with safety rules and regulations; low energy and enthusiasm will prevent employees from actively participating in workplace safety [17]. Therefore, we have reason to state that job insecurity first leads to insomnia in employees and then reduces work engagement, which ultimately leads to a decrease in safety behaviour. That is, insomnia and work engagement play a serial mediating role between job insecurity and safe behaviour. Based on the above inferences, we propose the following hypotheses.