The mediating role of controllability appraisals and coping strategies on adaptive functioning after job loss: a path model.
Sci Rep
; 12(1): 14898, 2022 09 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2016841
ABSTRACT
Job loss is a stressful event that increases the risk of experiencing depression and anxiety, especially during the initial months of unemployment. This study examined differences in psychological symptoms and resilient functioning accounted by employment status. The results pointed out that recently unemployed compared to currently employed individuals had lower levels of perceived controllability and resilience as well as higher levels of depression and anxiety. Path analyses showed that lower controllability appraisals at wave 1 of recently unemployed compared to employed individuals, in turn, predicted a lower use of active coping and reappraisal at wave 2, with the latter further accounting for lower levels in resilience. Higher use of distraction further mediated the relation between employment status and higher levels of depression and anxiety symptoms. Our findings demonstrate the importance of controllability appraisals and coping strategies used to promote adaptive psychological functioning following job loss.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Anxiety
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Adaptation, Psychological
Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Rep
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S41598-022-19186-5
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