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- Title
Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: a randomized field experiment in coping with job loss.
- Authors
Caplan, R D; Vinokur, A D; Price, R H; van Ryn, M
- Abstract
Cognitive theories of adherence to difficult courses of action and findings from previous survey research on coping with a major life event--job loss--were used to generate a preventive intervention, tested by a randomized field experiment. The aim was to prevent poor mental health and loss of motivation to seek reemployment among those who continued to be unemployed and to promote high-quality reemployment. Ss were 928 recently unemployed adults from southeastern Michigan, representing a broad range of demographic characteristics; they were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control condition. The experimental intervention included training in job seeking with a problem-solving process emphasizing inoculation against setbacks and positive social reinforcement. A pretest was administered, followed by posttests 1 and 4 months after the experiment. The experimental condition yielded higher quality reemployment in terms of earnings and job satisfaction, and higher motivation among those who continued to be unemployed.
- Publication
The Journal of applied psychology, 1989, Vol 74, Issue 5, p759
- ISSN
0021-9010
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0021-9010.74.5.759