Unemployed individuals: Motives, job-search competencies, and job-search constraints as predictors of job seeking and reemployment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wanberg, CR; Kanfer, R; Rotundo, M
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.84.6.897
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 897-910

摘要

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.