Coping with unemployment in COVID-19: The role of employability beliefs in exploration self-efficacy
Coping with unemployment in COVID-19: The role of employability beliefs in exploration self-efficacy
Author(s): Maria do Céu Taveira, Ana Daniela Silva, Soraia PereiraSubject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Personality Psychology, Organizational Psychology
Published by: Društvo psihologa Srbije
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; unemployment; employability; career exploration self-efficacy
Summary/Abstract: The new coronavirus global pandemic has caused accelerated and emerging changes in the labor market, including increased unemployment. We examined the associations between employability beliefs and career exploration self-efficacy of 1585 unemployed adult workers, in Portugal, who lost their job after COVID-19. Participants completed measures of employability beliefs consistent with striving, proactivity, flexibility, acceptance of challenges, optimism and autonomy dispositions, and of career exploration self-efficacy. Using multiple linear regression analyses, we found that employability dispositional beliefs established significant positive associations with career exploration self-efficacy, especially autonomy, striving and optimism. Implications of these findings for future research and practice are considered.
Journal: Psihologija
- Issue Year: 56/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 347-369
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English, Serbian