Explication of the coping goal construct: implications for coping and reemployment.
This longitudinal study developed a reemployment coping goal construct and examined its role in a job-loss context. Several predictors of displaced workers' reemployment coping goal intensity were examined: human capital, employment commitment, internal coping resources, and anticipation of job loss. Results show that human capital, employment commitment, internal coping resources, and anticipation of job loss positively predicted a reemployment coping goal. Human capital also directly predicted reemployment. Finally, unemployed individuals' reemployment coping goal intensity positively predicted job-search effort, which positively predicted reemployment. Implications for the process of coping with job loss and future research are discussed.
Prussia
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Department of Management, Seattle University, Washington 98122-4340, USA. gprussia@seattleu.edu
Fugate
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Kinicki
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AJ
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged