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

Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 42 Số 3 - Trang 689-701 - 2012
Peter A. Creed1, Michelle Hood1, Lai Yin Leung1
1School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

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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.

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Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Tập 42 Số 3

689-701

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