Dynamics of the Job Search Process: Developing and Testing a Mediated Moderation Model

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sun, Shuhua; Song, Zhaoli; Lim, Vivien K. G.
• 署名单位: Maastricht University; National University of Singapore
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0033606
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 771-784
• 关键词: chronic regulatory focus; interview offers; job search efficacy; mediated moderation model

摘要

Taking a self-regulatory perspective, we develop a mediated moderation model explaining how within-person changes in job search efficacy and chronic regulatory focus interactively affect the number of job interview offers and whether job search effort mediates the cross-level interactive effects. A sample of 184 graduating college students provided monthly reports of their job search activities over a period of 8 months. Findings supported the hypothesized relationships. Specifically, at the within-person level, job search efficacy was positively related with the number of interview offers for job seekers with strong prevention focus and negatively related with the number of interview offers for job seekers with strong promotion focus. Results show that job search effort mediated the moderated relationships. Findings enhance understandings of the complex self-regulatory processes underlying job search.