Soral, Wiktor, Bukowski, Marcin, Bilewicz, Michal, Cichocka, Aleksandra, Lewczuk, Karol, Marchlewska, Marta, Rabinovitch, Aleksandra, Redzio, Anna, Skrodzka, Magdalena, Kofta, Mirek and others. (2024) Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement. Journal of Personality, . Article Number jopy.12967. ISSN 0022-3506. (doi:10.1111/jopy.12967) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:106627)
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Abstract
Objective and Background
The need for control is a fundamental human motivation, that when deprived can lead to broad and substantial changes in human behavior. We aimed to assess the consequences of control deprivation in a real-life situation that poses a severe threat to personal control: a prolonged unemployment.
Method
Using a sample N = 1055 of unemployed (n = 748) versus working (n = 307) individuals, we examined predictions derived from two models of reactions to control deprivation: control-regaining and disengagement/withdrawal.
Results and Conclusions
We found that length unemployment is correlated with a psychological state strongly interfering with psychological as well as social functioning. While control-regaining models of responding to lack of control have received virtually no support from our findings, our results provide evidence that long-term unemployed individuals are more disengaged than working individuals. They are more apathetic, less likely to engage in control-regaining efforts and in active forms of construing one's own future.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/jopy.12967 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | control deprivation; disengagement; helplessness; unemployment |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Aleksandra Cichocka |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2024 12:57 UTC |
Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2024 09:38 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106627 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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