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The forgotten middle: How moderate self-efficacy amplifies the threat of AI through job insecurity
Originally published 2026-01-12 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1734254 ↗
AI / system type
AI adoption and perceived job insecurity in cross-border e-commerce
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: AI adoption and perceived job insecurity in cross-border e-commerce. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings self-efficacy and the psychological threat of AI-related job insecurity into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers multi-source paired employee–supervisor study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is self-efficacy and the psychological threat of AI-related job insecurity. Source setting or population: 392 employees and supervisors in China’s cross-border e-commerce sector. 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 · Independence
Why might capable employees still feel threatened by AI at work?
This multi-source paired employee–supervisor study examines self-efficacy and the psychological threat of AI-related job insecurity. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
392 employees and supervisors in China’s cross-border e-commerce sector
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Why might capable employees still feel threatened by AI at work?
- What do this study’s design and population — 392 employees and supervisors in China’s cross-border e-commerce sector — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering self-efficacy and the psychological threat of AI-related job insecurity, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The modeled nonlinear pattern is context-specific and observational; moderate confidence should not be labeled a personal deficiency.
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Xinrui Liu; Zijian Ye (2026). The forgotten middle: How moderate self-efficacy amplifies the threat of AI through job insecurity Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1734254
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