Emotional Costs, Self-efficacy and Coping Strategies among Unemployed Individuals during Professional Internship

• Authors: Katarzyna Ślebarska

Abstracts

EN

The study investigates the emotional costs experienced in the new workplace and general self-efficacy (GSE) as predictors of coping during the first period of reemployment. The study was conducted among 69 unemployed during professional internship. Questionnaires battery was administered in two waves (T1 and T2) within the first two weeks of this kind of reemployment and after 3 months. 35 respondents participated in T2. The results showed GSE and emotional costs as predictors of coping strategies using in the work re-entry phase. Further regression analysis showed a significant relationship between problem solving (T1) and GSE, and emotional costs (T2).

Keywords

EN

emotional costs; self-efficacy; coping strategies; reemployment

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 35
• Pages: 251-264

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Ślebarska

• University of Silesia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.14.35.1.20

Biblioteka Nauki

2028714