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Job Replacement Anxiety and Approach-Avoidance Job Crafting: The Roles of Regulatory Focus and AI Literacy
Originally published 2026-08-28 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs16091519 ↗
AI / system type
AI job-replacement anxiety and AI literacy
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 job-replacement anxiety and AI literacy. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings job-replacement anxiety, regulatory focus and job crafting into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave matched employee survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is job-replacement anxiety, regulatory focus and job crafting. Source setting or population: 583 Chinese employees with a broadly balanced gender distribution. 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
Can AI literacy help people adapt without giving up control over their work?
This three-wave matched employee survey examines job-replacement anxiety, regulatory focus and job crafting. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
583 Chinese employees with a broadly balanced gender distribution
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Can AI literacy help people adapt without giving up control over their work?
- What do this study’s design and population — 583 Chinese employees with a broadly balanced gender distribution — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering job-replacement anxiety, regulatory focus and job crafting, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Time-lagged self-report data remain observational; AI literacy was not randomly assigned as a protective intervention.
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Chuanhao Fan; Han Wang (2026). Job Replacement Anxiety and Approach-Avoidance Job Crafting: The Roles of Regulatory Focus and AI Literacy Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16091519
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