The young person's job search: Insights from a study.

Dayton, Charles

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“…Five independent variables were examined in this study: sex, class, A-level, voting intentions, and parents' employment status. Thus five sets of ANOVAs were computed across all the items on both the Gurney (1981) and Dayton (1981) scale. The only variables which discriminated better than chance were sex and class.…”

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“…(2) Job-seeking Activities (Dayton, 1981) This was a two-part questionnaire developed to determine firstly, which of 30 or so activities were considered to be most useful getting a job and secondly, which of 35 factors were considered barriers and which aids to getting a job. Although Dayton did not do much psychometric work on these scales (validity, reliability) he did administer them to two populations with comparable results and found they correlated meaningfully with employment status and satisfaction and a wide range of demographic and aptitude measures.…”

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“…In a rather different study Dayton (1981) looked at the way in which young people looked for a job. He set out to determine what job-seeking approaches were being used by young people and what factors they found positive and useful (Aids) and what negative and worthless (Barriers) in a job search.…”

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Getting a Job: School‐leavers' Perceptions of Employment Prospects

Furnham

1984

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Summary. Whereas most studies of unemployment have tended to focus on the psychological effects of joblessness, few studies have looked at young people's beliefs about, or strategies of, getting a job. This study was concerned with school‐leavers' attributions about the causes of unemployment, the most and least useful job‐search strategies, and beliefs about which school courses they felt most useful in getting a job. Results showed both sex and class differences in their internal attributions about employment and external attributions about unemployment. Sciences, rather than arts or social science courses, were thought to be most useful in getting a job. The results are discussed in terms of attribution and expectancy theory. Problems associated with research of this kind are also considered.

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Getting a Job: School‐leavers' Perceptions of Employment Prospects

Furnham

1984

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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“…Although there has been a sustained interest in the study of the unemployed (Feather, 1990;Jahoda, 1981) and their job-search activities (Dayton, 1981;Ellis & Taylor, 1983;Feather, 1990Feather, , 1992Feather & O'Brien, 1987;Kjos, 1988;Vinokur & Caplan, 1987), none of this research has addressed the question of dilatory behavior.…”

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“…A list of 14 activities associated with searching for a job was used to measure intentions (adapted from Dayton, 1981). The job-search activities included "search the classified want ads," "send out my resume," "register with agency" and "select a specific job."…”

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Conscientiousness, procrastination, and person-task characteristics in job searching by unemployed adults

Lay¹,

Brokenshire²

1997

Curr Psychol

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The study examined the job-search intentions and subsequent behavior of 32 unemployed males and 32 unemployed females, median age of 43 years, in relation to conscientiousness and the lower-order trait procrastination and to rated person-task characteristics of importance, pleasantness, and competence regarding 14 job-search activities. At Time 1, conscientiousness was positively related to each of the person-task characteristics and to intentions to engage in the composite of job-search activities; trait procrastination was not. At Time 2, two weeks later, trait procrastination predicted self-reported job-search behaviors, controlling for initial intentions, with procrastinators exhibiting less job-search activity in the two week interim, compared to nonprocrastinators. Both conscientiousness and trait procrastination were related to a direct self-report measure of dilatory behavior. The three person-task characteristics were found to mediate the relation of conscientiousness to job-search intentions and to dilatory behavior. In addition, perceived task pleasantness moderated the relation of conscientiousness to job-search behavior, controlling for intentions, such that higher levels of conscientiousness were associated with increases in behavior only under conditions of low task pleasantness. Discussion centered on the prominent role of the person-task characteristics and on the place of conscientiousness and trait procrastination in predicting intentions and behavior.As conceptualized, trait procrastination is a summary variable, rather than a source variable (Buss & Craik, 1983;Pervin, 1994). It is a summary of the predisposition to engage in dilatory behavior. For this reason, much of the research on trait procrastination can be viewed as a search for its proximal sources. Schouwenburg and Lay (1995) have recently narrowed the search by suggesting that trait procrastination is best interpreted as the lack of conscientiousness. Their conclusion was based on an assessment of the relations between each of the big-five factors (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and trait procrastination. The high negative association found between the factor conscientiousness and the lower-order trait procrastination, coupled with the relative independence of the trait to the remaining four big-five factors, was consistent with comparable data reported by Johnson and Bloom (1995). What remains is to demonstrate a link between conscientiousness and dilatory behavior (Lay, in press), and to explore the role of both conscientiousness and trait procrastination in predicting related variables. Conscientiousness is of wide importance in its own right, of course, not only as one of the big-five factors, but in terms of its relations to achievement and other behaviors (Barrick

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The Job Search Process: An Attitudinal and Behavioral Analysis

Latham

1987

Journal of Employment Couns

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The young person's job search: Insights from a study.

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Getting a Job: School‐leavers' Perceptions of Employment Prospects

Getting a Job: School‐leavers' Perceptions of Employment Prospects

Conscientiousness, procrastination, and person-task characteristics in job searching by unemployed adults

The Job Search Process: An Attitudinal and Behavioral Analysis

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