Influence of job-hunting anxiety on job-hunting: From the viewpoint of coping

Abstract

The present study developed a job-hunting anxiety scale and investigated the inuence of job-hunting anxiety on coping, number of job-hunting applications, and satisfaction with job-hunting. Questionnaires were completed by 306 college students who had started job-hunting. Explorative factor analysis extracted ve factors such as "appeal anxiety" , "support anxiety" , "activity persistence anxiety" , "test anxiety" , and "a lack of readiness anxiety" . Analysis of covariance structures indicated that a job-hunting anxiety was negatively related to problem-focused coping, the number of job-hunting applications, and the satisfaction with job-hunting, and b problem-focused coping was positively related to the number of job-hunting applications and the satisfaction with job-hunting. These results suggest that reduction of job-hunting anxiety and the use of problem-focused coping facilitated job-hunting.

Does shift-and-persist strategy buffer career choice anxiety and affect career exploration?

“…Although our model was not supported, our results suggest that a cognitive/thinking style of acceptance and positive reframing of stressful events, finding meaning in life, and optimism about the future (i.e., S-P) may reduce people to anxiety in job hunting and promote career exploration. Moreover, the negative association between career choice anxiety and career exploration is evidence that supports previous studies that have addressed anxiety as a psychological problem in job hunting and have shown a negative association with maladjustments in job hunting, such as job hunting activities [1] and career decisions [16].…”

“…All scores indicated that higher composite scores indicated greater subjective childhood SES, S-P, career choice anxiety, and career exploration. Before conducting the moderated mediation analysis, the following steps were performed (cf., [15]): (1) The direct effect of SES on career exploration and the indirect effects via career choice anxiety were examined by performing the mediation analysis; (2) Through the moderation analysis was examined whether S-P can buffer the association between SES and career choice anxiety, and between SES and career exploration. In addition, 95% confidence intervals were reported in this analysis.…”

“…The questionnaire was created using Google Forms, and participants were asked to complete it online using their own PCs or smartphones. We excluded participants who met the following criteria: (1) were not students at vocational, junior college, university, or graduate school (N = 7), (2) did not meet the age requirement of being between 18 and 29 years old (N = 14), (3) responded to the filler item-''Be sure to choose not to answer this question''-from the analysis (N = 42), and (4) met all of (1) to (3) criteria (N = 21). Finally, 311 participants (122 males, 182 females, and 7 others; M age = 22.68, SD = 2.99) were included in the analysis.…”

“…Author details 1 Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan. 2 Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.…”

“…A high level of anxiety has a disturbing effect on job hunting [ 1 ]; it can also be a direct or indirect risk factor that hinders career exploration. Low socioeconomic status (SES), an individual difference factor, is detrimental to individuals’ physical and psychological health [ 2 ] and their job hunting anxiety and career-related indicators.…”