Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement

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dc.abstract.enObjective and Background: The need for control is a fundamental human motivation, that when deprived can lead to broad and substantial changes in human behavior. We aimed to assess the consequences of control deprivation in a real-life situation that poses a severe threat to personal control: a prolonged unemployment. Method: Using a sample N = 1055 of unemployed (n = 748) versus working (n = 307) individuals, we examined predictions derived from two models of reactions to control deprivation: control-regaining and disengagement/withdrawal. Results and Conclusions: We found that length unemployment is correlated with a psychological state strongly interfering with psychological as well as social functioning. While control-regaining models of responding to lack of control have received virtually no support from our findings, our results provide evidence that long-term unemployed individuals are more disengaged than working individuals. They are more apathetic, less likely to engage in control-regaining efforts and in active forms of construing one's own future.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorSoral, Wiktor
dc.contributor.authorBukowski, Marcin
dc.contributor.authorBilewicz, Michał
dc.contributor.authorCichocka, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorLewczuk, Karol
dc.contributor.authorMarchlewska, Marta
dc.contributor.authorRabinovitch, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorRędzio, Anna
dc.contributor.authorSkrodzka, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorKofta, Mirosław
dc.date.access2026-08-02
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T07:11:35Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T07:11:35Z
dc.date.created2024-07-18
dc.date.issued2024-08-02
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective and Background</jats:title><jats:p>The need for control is a fundamental human motivation, that when deprived can lead to broad and substantial changes in human behavior. We aimed to assess the consequences of control deprivation in a real‐life situation that poses a severe threat to personal control: a prolonged unemployment.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method</jats:title><jats:p>Using a sample <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 1055 of unemployed (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 748) versus working (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 307) individuals, we examined predictions derived from two models of reactions to control deprivation: control‐regaining and disengagement/withdrawal.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results and Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>We found that length unemployment is correlated with a psychological state strongly interfering with psychological as well as social functioning. While control‐regaining models of responding to lack of control have received virtually no support from our findings, our results provide evidence that long‐term unemployed individuals are more disengaged than working individuals. They are more apathetic, less likely to engage in control‐regaining efforts and in active forms of construing one's own future.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jopy.12967
dc.identifier.eissn1467-6494
dc.identifier.issn0022-3506
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/835
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12967
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
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dc.subject.encontrol deprivation
dc.subject.endisengagement
dc.subject.enhelplessness
dc.subject.enunemployment
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dc.titleProlonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement
dc.title.journalJournal of Personality
dc.typeJournalArticle
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