Correlates of life satisfaction and unemployment stigma and the impact of length of unemployment on a unique unemployed sample

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2013),"Correlates of life satisfaction and unemployment stigma and the impact of length of unemployment on a unique unemployed sample", Career Development International, Vol. 18 Iss 3 pp. 257 -280 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to test a process model of coping with job loss by examining the impact of distal to proximal variable sets for incrementally explaining two distinct subjective well-being variables: life satisfaction and unemployment stigma. A second purpose is to test for mean differences between study scales for increasingly long-term unemployed individuals. Design/methodology/approach -A unique sample of unemployed victims completed an online survey investigating the impact of six variable sets on life satisfaction and unemployment stigma. These sets fall within the McKee-Ryan et al. taxonomy and included: human capital and demographics; personal and financial coping resources; cognitive appraisal; escape-focused coping; problem-focused coping; and job search effort. Findings -Results partially supported the hypothesized variable set impact order on both life satisfaction and unemployment stigma. In addition some significant differences on study variables were found comparing four unemployed groups: up to six months; and three progressively long-term unemployed groups, i.e. seven to 12 months; 13 to 24 months; and over 24 months, with the over 24 month unemployed respondents (23 per cent of the sample) suffering the most.Research limitations/implications -The cross-sectional self-report study research design is the foremost limitation. However, given the challenges of collecting unemployment related-data on such a diverse sample, the unemployment agency/job services recent-job-loss-respondent longitudinal data collection approach used in previous research was not an option. The one-factor test found that only 15 per cent of "common method variance" was explained by the first factor, suggesting that this is not an overriding limitation. Survey constraints necessitated using shortened validated scales in several instances. However, the authors did select the highest loading items when shortening scales and such scales w...

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