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 longitudin...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 1999-12, Vol.84 (6), p.897-910
Main Authors: Wanberg, Connie R, Rotundo, Maria, Kanfer, Ruth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Adult
Applied psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Competence
Constraints
Employment
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Individual Differences
Individuality
Individuals
Influences
Internal-External Control
Job Application
Job hunting
Job Search
Job searching
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Middle Aged
Motivation
Occupational psychology
Prediction
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reemployment
Self Efficacy
Skills
Studies
Unemployed
Unemployment
Unemployment - psychology
Variables
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.84.6.897