The Dynamics of Unemployment

Borgen, William A.; Amundson, Norman E.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1987.tb00841.x

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“…We also noted with interest that this figure resembles earlier research regarding the dynamics of unemployment, wherein the metaphor of an emotional roller coaster was used to describe some of the reactions to the unemployment experience (Borgen & Amundson, 1987).…”

Section: Further Analysis Of the Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

the experience of change and its impact on workers who self‐identify as doing well with change that affects their work

Borgen

Butterfield

Amundson

2010

Journal of Employment Couns

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This study sought to understand more about the experience of workers who selfidentified as doing well within the context of volatile and changing work situations. The research results indicate that even those workers who report doing well with change experience a myriad of work-related, personal life, attitude and approach, and professional life changes. The impacts of these changes can be categorized by theme: psychological, professional/work, emotional, personal/family life, physical, and cultural. Results are framed within the psychological thriving literature. Implications for organizations, counselors, and future research are discussed.

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Section: Further Analysis Of the Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

the experience of change and its impact on workers who self‐identify as doing well with change that affects their work

Borgen

Butterfield

Amundson

2010

Journal of Employment Couns

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“…In earlier studies on the dynamics of unemployment, my colleague and I have used the metaphor of a roller coaster or yo-yo to capture the emotional upheaval of the experience (Amundson & Borgen, 1987;Borgen & Amundson, 1987). Certainly these reactions would be consistent with some aspects of the metaphoric image that is being described by Reid (1996), that is, those persons lying on the side of the road.…”

Section: The Motivation For Changementioning

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Three‐dimensional living

Amundson

2001

Journal of Employment Couns

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....Tackling the topic of how one should live is not easy. I have been thinking about and trying to practice some of these ideas for many years with modest success. The key here is the word modest; in many respects the struggle continues. It is tough to put some of these ideas on the printed page because by writing them, there is a certain call to accountability. Yet I persist, knowing that I do not have it all figured out but wanting to share with you where I am in the journey. I hope some of these ideas will spur you on in your own journey.As a visual person, I find it helpful to use metaphors to help further my understanding. The adage a "picture is worth a thousand words" certainly fits with my experience of reality. Metaphors have the ability to capture relatively complex constructs (Rule, 1983). Thus, I begin by proposing a metaphor for the way we live. This metaphor is based on physical properties of matter. Basically, I see our lives as units of being with a structure that includes the dimensions of length, width, and depth. The properties of being are such that we can be separated and analyzed for our unique personal qualities. In this respect, we are like billiard balls in motion on a table with separate boundaries and connections with others that reflect straightforward cause and effect relationships. Psychological studies often reflect this perspective on personal reality. At another level, however, we fuse together and operate more like waves than like individual units. This collective identity is often captured through studies in the areas of sociology or political science. It is not that one view is more correct than the other. In fact, we are capable of both individual action and collective identity. A recent article by Lindh and Dahlin (2000) from Sweden illustrates how these different perspectives have developed (and are developing) in Europe and in North America.

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“…Many unemployed people find the job search process to be difficult and associated with negative emotions (Borgen & Amundson, 1987;Wanberg, Zhu, & Van Hooft, 2010). Van Hooft, Wanberg, and van Hoye (2013) argue that self-efficacy likely affects job search quality.…”

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With a little help of my peers. The supportive role of online contacts for the unemployed

Fieseler

Meckel

Müller

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

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Unemployment is an unfortunate reality, whose overcoming often depends on social support, among other factors. Online social media, such as social network sites and communities, may offer an additional source of such support for unemployed people. This paper posits that online social support plays an important role in unemployed people's ability to cope with unemployment and search for new employment. The paper develops and tests a structural equation model of the influence of online-mediated, enabling and caring social support on job search self-efficacy, which may foster the job search behaviour of unemployed persons. In addition, we control for gender, age, user experience, and attitude towards the Internet. Based on 1,322 telephone interviews with unemployed individuals in Germany, we find that online social support drives job search behaviour. Our results show that social support derived from new information and communication technology counteracts the adverse effect of being unemployed to a certain degree. Enabling support and caring support experienced through social media both lead to higher job search self-efficacy, which, in turn, fosters job search behaviour. Furthermore, our model shows that these relationships differ by gender, age, user experience, and attitude towards the Internet.

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The Dynamics of Unemployment

Cited by 84 publications

References 19 publications

the experience of change and its impact on workers who self‐identify as doing well with change that affects their work

the experience of change and its impact on workers who self‐identify as doing well with change that affects their work

Three‐dimensional living

With a little help of my peers. The supportive role of online contacts for the unemployed

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