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  • The relationship between core self-evaluations, employment commitment and well-being in the unemployed

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    Creed, Peter A
    Lehmann, Kim
    Hood, Michelle
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hood, Michelle H.
    Creed, Peter A.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    We surveyed 173 unemployed adults and assessed their levels of core self-evaluations (self-efficacy, selfesteem, neuroticism, control), employment commitment, and psychological well-being. Three hypotheses were tested: (a) that higher self-esteem and self-efficacy, lower neuroticism and greater perceptions of control would be positively related to well-being; (b) that employment commitment would account for additional variance over and above that accounted for by the core self-evaluation variables; and (c) length of unemployment would moderate the relationship between employment commitment and well-being. Self-esteem, ...
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    We surveyed 173 unemployed adults and assessed their levels of core self-evaluations (self-efficacy, selfesteem, neuroticism, control), employment commitment, and psychological well-being. Three hypotheses were tested: (a) that higher self-esteem and self-efficacy, lower neuroticism and greater perceptions of control would be positively related to well-being; (b) that employment commitment would account for additional variance over and above that accounted for by the core self-evaluation variables; and (c) length of unemployment would moderate the relationship between employment commitment and well-being. Self-esteem, neuroticism, and control were related to well-being in the expected direction. In support of incongruence theory, employment commitment contributed unique variance. Further, the relationship between employment commitment and well-being was contingent on length of unemployment, with those unemployed longer being disproportionately disadvantaged when employment commitment was high. The study demonstrated the value of considering dispositional characteristics when examining the well-being of unemployed people; and demonstrated direct support for the incongruence model by showing that employment commitment was unrelated to core self-evaluations and was differentially related to well-being in unemployed people, depending on their period of unemployment.
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    Journal Title
    Personality and Individual Differences
    Volume
    47
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01918869
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.021
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 Elsevier. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/29742
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