Journal of Business and Psychology - Call for Papers: Economic Stress and Work
Special Issue Editors:
Robert R. Sinclair, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Tahira M. Probst, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Mindy K. Shoss, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Economic stress encompasses numerous and often interrelated stressors – unemployment, underemployment, job insecurity, financial deprivation, and financial stress. Together, these concerns create a heavy burden for workers and their families. While some of these stressors have received extensive research attention, particularly regarding health outcomes, others are understudied, particularly with regard to how they intersect with the workplace. There are several broad areas in which further economic stress research is needed including: (1) the nature of economic stress constructs, (2) the antecedents and consequences of economic stressors, (3) whether and how economic stressors might differ in non-western, non-professional, and other non-traditional samples, (4) the general impact of societal inequity on workers, (5) differences in the impact and experience of economic stress on workers across the life course, (6) relations between and mutual effects of multiple economic stressors, and (7) attention to new economic stressors (e.g., debt complexity, financial fragility). The table below provides examples of questions within each of these areas. Other examples of potential issues include the intersection of wage and hour insecurity with economic stress and workplace outcomes, the efficacy of organizational and public policy interventions, multilevel/cross level effects, and temporal dynamics of economic stress effects. The goal of this special issue is to publish theoretical and empirical studies that extend literature on these and other aspects of economic stress.
The special issue will use a two-step review process. Interested authors will submit a short proposal (750-1000 words) describing their proposed submission. Proposals should briefly describe the background to their research topic, hypotheses, methods, key findings (where applicable), and implications for research/practice. In general, we expect submissions to be theoretically/conceptually driven, although more inductive/discovery-oriented approaches also will be considered as will qualitative papers. Proposals should describe work that is at least in progress and final submissions should be fully completed studies (pre-registered reports will not be considered). In any of these cases, the key criterion for evaluating potential submissions will be the clarity and importance of their contribution to the scientific literature.
Initial proposals should be submitted by February 15, 2023. Please submit your proposal for this special issue by email to Robert Sinclair at rsincla@clemson.edu (this opens in a new tab) (this opens in a new tab)(and please copy the issue coeditors Mindy Shoss -- Mindy.Shoss@ucf.edu (this opens in a new tab) (this opens in a new tab)and Tahira Probst – probst@wsu.edu (this opens in a new tab)) (this opens in a new tab). Please mention the special issue “Economic Stress and Work” in the subject line of the email. In the body of the email, please include names and institutional affiliations of all authors, and indicate the corresponding author. Proposals will be selected based on the quality of submissions and authors will be informed of the preliminary editorial decision by April 1, 2024. Full submissions will be submitted through the portal of the Journal of Business and Psychology by August 1, 2024 with a goal of having initial review decisions by November 1, 2024. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed, as usual.
For inquiries related to this special issue, please contact one of the guest editors: Robert Sinclair ( (this opens in a new tab)rsincla@clemson.edu (this opens in a new tab)) (this opens in a new tab), Tahira Probst ( (this opens in a new tab)probst@wsu.edu (this opens in a new tab)) (this opens in a new tab), or Mindy Shoss ( (this opens in a new tab)Mindy.Shoss@u (this opens in a new tab)cf.edu) but please copy the other editors on any communications.