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The impact of artificial intelligence application on employees' job insecurity: the moderating roles of self-efficacy and transformational leadership
Originally published 2026-06-03 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1786588 ↗
AI / system type
Intensity of organizational AI application
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Intensity of organizational AI application. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings AI application intensity, self-efficacy and employment insecurity into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers self-report employee questionnaire study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is AI application intensity, self-efficacy and employment insecurity. Source setting or population: 411 valid employee questionnaires collected through online and offline channels. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
What can leaders communicate honestly about AI and job security?
This self-report employee questionnaire study examines AI application intensity, self-efficacy and employment insecurity. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
411 valid employee questionnaires collected through online and offline channels
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What can leaders communicate honestly about AI and job security?
- What do this study’s design and population — 411 valid employee questionnaires collected through online and offline channels — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering AI application intensity, self-efficacy and employment insecurity, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The reported nonlinear associations are observational; they do not identify a universally safe level of AI deployment.
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Wenxiu Fu; Hui Zhang (2026). The impact of artificial intelligence application on employees' job insecurity: the moderating roles of self-efficacy and transformational leadership Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1786588
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