1 Running head: CATCH ME IF I FALL Catch Me if I Fall! Enacted Uncertainty Avoidance and the Social Safety Net as Country-Level Moderators in the Job Insecurity-Job Attitudes Link Maike E. Debus Universität Zürich Tahira M. Probst Washington State University Vancouver Cornelius J. König Universität des Saarlandes Martin Kleinmann Universität Zürich Maike E. Debus, Department of Psychology, Universität Zürich, Switzerland; Tahira M. Probst, Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver; Cornelius J. König, Department of Psychology, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany; Martin Kleinmann, Department of Psychology, Universität Zürich. This study was supported by the Stiftung Suzanne und Hans Biäsch zur Förderung der Angewandten Psychologie (Suzanne and Hans Biäsch Foundation for the Support of Applied Psychology) and the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (Swiss Science Foundation) Grant 10014-118060. This grant is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Fridtjof Nussbeck for statistical consultation. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Maike E. Debus, Universität¨t Zürich, Arbeits- & Organisationspsychologie, Binzmühlestrasse 14/12, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: m.debus@ psychologie.uzh.ch This preprint version may not exactly replicate the final version published in Journal of Applied Psychology. It is not the version of record and is therefore not suitable for citation. Coypright: Debus, M. E., Probst, T. M., König, C. J., & Kleinmann, M. (2012). Catch me if I fall! Enacted uncertainty avoidance and the social safety net as country-level moderators in the job insecurity-job attitudes link. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 690-698. doi: 10.1037/a0027832