Individual strategies of coping with unemployment among displaced Spanish workers

Virkes, Tihana. (2016). Individual strategies of coping with unemployment among displaced Spanish workers. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Psychology. [mentor Maslić Seršić, Darja and López Zafra, Esther].

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Abstract

The aim of this research was to determine the contribution of core self-evaluations in explaining the coping strategies of job search and job devaluation, as well as to test the potential moderation effect of job search and mediation effect of job devaluation on the relationship between core self-evaluations and both positive and negative experience of unemployment. In total 178 unemployed individuals from Jaén, Spain, participated in this study. Coping strategies were measured by a questionnaire constructed in Croatia, which was translated to Spanish for this purpose. Generally, higher core self-evaluations were related to higher levels of active job search, as well as job devaluation. Also, higher educated people tended to search for jobs more than the lower educated. Job search did not moderate the relationship between core self-evaluations and experience of unemployment. However, people with higher levels of job search and lower levels of core self-evaluations had a less positive, and at the same time more negative experience of unemployment. Additionally, females had a more negative experience of unemployment. Individuals with a longer duration of the current period of unemployment and higher core self-evaluations had a more positive experience of unemployment, and this relationship was partially mediated by job devaluation. Negative experience of unemployment was more common among female participants and among those with lower core self-evaluations and job devaluation levels. These findings could be used in creating new intervention programs focused on improving core self-evaluations and the positive experience of unemployed people in Spain.

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