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Sverko, Branimir; Galic, Zvonimir; Sersic, Darja Maslic; Galesic, Mirta – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
A three-wave longitudinal study of unemployed persons in Croatia was used to examine the antecedents of job-seeking behavior and reemployment. A series of demographic, motivational and job-constraint variables were posited to influence job-seeking behavior, which, in turn, was hypothesized to affect (re)employment. The participants were surveyed…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods
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McArdle, Sarah; Waters, Lea; Briscoe, Jon P.; Hall, Douglas T. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Recently, Fugate et al. [Fugate, M., Kinicki, A. J., & Ashforth, B. E. (2004). Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications. "Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65"(1), 14] defined employability as a psycho-social construct comprised of three dimensions: (i) adaptability; (ii) career identity; and (iii)…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Potential, Social Capital, Human Capital
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Song, Zhaoli; Wanberg, Connie; Niu, Xiongying; Xie, Yizhong – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
Job search is an important element of people's careers and is especially critical for unemployed individuals. The current study surveyed a sample of 328 unemployed job seekers in China to test hypotheses related to the theory of planned behavior and action-state orientation theory. Results of the three-wave longitudinal study demonstrated that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Careers, Unemployment
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Crossley, Craig D.; Stanton, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
The present study examined a longitudinal model of state and trait negative affect as predictors of job-search success. Job-search self-efficacy and job-search intensity were also examined as mediators of the negative affect--job-search success relation. Overall the model offered mixed support for Kasl's (1982) Reverse Causation Hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Hypothesis Testing, Self Efficacy, Models