Dealing with negative job search experiences: The beneficial role of self-compassion for job seekers' affective responses

Kreemers, Loes M.; Hooft, Edwin A. J. van; Vianen, A.E.M. van

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.02.001

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“…This is important as research thus far could not identify stress management interventions as effective components of job search interventions (Liu et al, 2014). Further, we extend prior research by Kreemers et al (2018), who showed a relationship between trait self-compassion and job seekers' affect. Because their design was correlational, we cannot rule out the possibility that this relationship is spurious (e.g., affected by omitted third variables).…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Job search difficulties such as failure to find suitable leads, lack of job search progress, and rejections elicit negative thoughts and feelings, which in turn harm job seekers' mental well-being. In addition to eliciting negative emotions, job search difficulties also undermine positive emotions (Kreemers et al, 2018), which has consequences for job search outcomes, as especially positive feelings are related to job search success (Turban et al, 2013). Therefore, it is important to identify how negative affective responses during job search can be reduced and positive affective responses can be increased.…”

Section: Job Search and Mental Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Self-compassion may be a promising coping mechanism for job seekers when experiencing negative job search events because self-compassioned cognitions make individuals respond to failure with kindness to the self, make them aware that failure is human, and let them acknowledge their emotions with a healthy distance (Neff, 2003a). A recent correlational study has indeed shown that job seekers higher on trait self-compassion were less affected by negative job search experiences, such that they felt more positively and less negatively while searching for a job (Kreemers et al, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Job search is associated with various obstacles and difficulties that can elicit negative emotions and undermine positive emotions. Having self-compassion may benefit job seekers' well-being by stimulating more balanced emotional responses to negative job search experiences. In an intervention study we examined whether state selfcompassion can be increased among job seekers through writing exercises in which job seekers are instructed to reflect with self-compassion on their negative job search experiences. We further examined whether the self-compassion intervention benefited job seekers' affective responses, through reducing self-criticism. We designed a between-participants field experiment with two conditions (i.e., self-compassion vs. control) and three measurement times 1 week apart: a baseline questionnaire, the intervention with a second questionnaire, and a follow-up questionnaire (N = 180). Results show that the self-compassion writing exercise increased job seekers' state selfcompassion, which in turn related to their affective responses to job search. Specifically, their negative deactivating affect (e.g., sadness) was lower and their positive deactivating affect (e.g., calmness) was higher immediately after the self-compassion writing exercise than after reflecting freely (i.e., the control condition). The effects on job seekers' affect were partially mediated by reduced self-criticism.

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“…For example, it could be interesting for future research do delve into the specific aspects of reflection (i.e., self‐evaluation, learning from failures, causal attributions, self‐reactions, and self‐rewarding) and to look at the effects these aspects have on the job search process and/or outcomes. For example, research has shown that self‐compassion is a promising emotion regulation strategy that can be used by job seekers to counteract detrimental emotional effects during job search (Kreemers, van Hooft, & van Vianen, ). Furthermore, it might also be interesting to investigate interpersonal differences, and to look at whether some job seekers are more likely to reflect than others and are therefore more inclined to learn and improve their job search process.…”

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Searching hard versus searching smart: The role of search process quality in an internship context

Stremersch

Hoye

2019

Int J Selection Assessment

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Based on a self-regulatory approach, we propose that students searching for an internship following a high-quality process will show greater search success. In a sample of 191 Belgian final year students looking for an internship, the quality of students' search process was positively related to both self-reported and objective search outcomes, beyond the mere intensity of their search. Specifically, reflection related positively to students' satisfaction and perceived fit with their internship, as well as to organizations' assessment of students' internship performance. Planning related positively to the speed of finding an internship. Furthermore, the four search process quality dimensions explained incremental variance in these outcomes beyond a unidimensional measure of metacognitive activities, supporting the added value of our multidimensional approach. K E Y W O R D SBelgium, career development, internship, job search, job search process quality, school-towork, self-regulation

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“…This indicates that the role job vacancy is not very much received by the males, and are not used as navigators in their future career, an opportunity to look for an appropriate colleague and company (Stonebraker, Maybee, & Chapman, 2019). Such condition is likely to be influenced by negative job search experiences (Kreemers, van Hooft, & van Vianen, 2018) and licence ownership and educational background (Fransen, Deruyter, & De Maeyer, 2018) of the undergraduate students.…”

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Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (Cdmd) in Indonesian University Students

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Siahaan²

2019

ASSRJ

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Though millennial has unique characteristics as digital natives who prefer to interact with images, branded goods, to have idols and who are interested in modern technological utilization, studying their career decision-making difficulties (CDMD) is barely reported in Indonesia. To respond to such gap, the current report was designed to pattern the CDMD of both male (N = 120) and female (N = 140) undergraduate students in Indonesia. The instrument of the research was totally adopted from Gati et al's. (1996) career decision-making difficulties questionnaire. Descriptive anaylsis showed that the male (M = 4.93) have higher difficulties than the females (M = 4.85). With different levels of difficulties, the current study, therefore, corresponds to Mau's (2004), Guan et al's. (2015), and di Fabio, Palazzeschi, Levin, Levin, and Gati's (2015) reports.

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Dealing with negative job search experiences: The beneficial role of self-compassion for job seekers' affective responses

Cited by 42 publications

References 55 publications

Testing a Self-Compassion Intervention Among Job Seekers: Self-Compassion Beneficially Impacts Affect Through Reduced Self-Criticism

Testing a Self-Compassion Intervention Among Job Seekers: Self-Compassion Beneficially Impacts Affect Through Reduced Self-Criticism

Searching hard versus searching smart: The role of search process quality in an internship context

Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (Cdmd) in Indonesian University Students

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