The Relationship Between Control, Job Seeking, and Well-Being in Unemployed People

We tested the usefulness of the competence–contingency–control model to account for well‐being and job seeking in the unemployed. We surveyed 216 job seekers (M age = 35 years; M unemployment = 12.4 months) with measures of personal competency, beliefs about contingency relationships, job seeking, a...

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Published in:Journal of applied social psychology 2012-03, Vol.42 (3), p.689-701
Main Authors: CREED, PETER A., HOOD, MICHELLE, LEUNG, LAI YIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children & youth
Foster care
Job hunting
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Summary:We tested the usefulness of the competence–contingency–control model to account for well‐being and job seeking in the unemployed. We surveyed 216 job seekers (M age = 35 years; M unemployment = 12.4 months) with measures of personal competency, beliefs about contingency relationships, job seeking, and well‐being. We hypothesized that control (i.e., competency and contingency) would be positively related to well‐being and job seeking, and that job seeking would be positively associated with well‐being and would mediate or moderate between control and well‐being. We found that control accounted for one third of the variance in well‐being, and was positively associated with job seeking (7% of variance). Job seeking did not mediate or moderate between control and well‐being.
ISSN:0021-9029
1559-1816
DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00798.x