Unemployed individuals: motives, job-search competencies, and job-search constraints as predictors of job seeking and reemployment.
This study investigated 3 broad classes of individual-differences variables (job-search motives, competencies, and constraints) as predictors of job-search intensity among unemployed job seekers. Also assessed was the relationship between job-search intensity and reemployment success in a longitudinal context. Results show significant relationships between the predictors employment commitment, financial hardship, job-search self-efficacy, and motivation control and the outcome job-search intensity. Support was not found for a relationship between perceived job-search constraints and job-search intensity. Motivation control was highlighted as the only lagged predictor of job-search intensity over time for those who were continuously unemployed. Job-search intensity predicted Time 2 reemployment status for the sample as a whole, but not reemployment quality for those who found jobs over the study's duration.
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Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis 55455, USA. cwanberg@csom.umn.edu
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D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007586:Job Application; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D020377:Self Efficacy; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology*