Unemployment and Possible Alterations of Personality Traits: The Case of the General Causality Orientations
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Drugaş, Marius
Abstract / Description
The investigation of the unemployment consequences is a challenging theme in current psychological research. The recent controversy on the nature of general causality orientations (GCO’s) as personality traits stood as a reason for this study. Considering that prolonged unemployment is a significant life event, we investigated the stability in time (as a condition for a personality trait) of GCO’s for a sample of unemployed and we compared the results to those obtained from a sample of employed individuals. The first measure took place in April 2007, the second in September 2007 and the third in November 2011. The results indicated a higher level of control orientation for the unemployed in T3 and a significant positive growth of impersonal orientation for the same sample. Among the research limits were the poor data collection about the reasons of unemployment, family structure, job search behaviors and economic status.
Keyword(s)
general causality orientation unemployment personality traitsPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2012-10-31
Journal title
Psychological Thought
Volume
5
Issue
2
Page numbers
113–123
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Drugaş, M. (2012). Unemployment and Possible Alterations of Personality Traits: The Case of the General Causality Orientations. Psychological Thought, 5(2), 113–123. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v5i2.20
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Drugaş, Marius
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Date of first publication2012-10-31
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Abstract / DescriptionThe investigation of the unemployment consequences is a challenging theme in current psychological research. The recent controversy on the nature of general causality orientations (GCO’s) as personality traits stood as a reason for this study. Considering that prolonged unemployment is a significant life event, we investigated the stability in time (as a condition for a personality trait) of GCO’s for a sample of unemployed and we compared the results to those obtained from a sample of employed individuals. The first measure took place in April 2007, the second in September 2007 and the third in November 2011. The results indicated a higher level of control orientation for the unemployed in T3 and a significant positive growth of impersonal orientation for the same sample. Among the research limits were the poor data collection about the reasons of unemployment, family structure, job search behaviors and economic status.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationDrugaş, M. (2012). Unemployment and Possible Alterations of Personality Traits: The Case of the General Causality Orientations. Psychological Thought, 5(2), 113–123. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v5i2.20en_US
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ISSN2193-7281
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1535
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1901
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v5i2.20
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Keyword(s)general causality orientationen_US
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Keyword(s)unemploymenten_US
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Keyword(s)personality traitsen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleUnemployment and Possible Alterations of Personality Traits: The Case of the General Causality Orientationsen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titlePsychological Thought
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Page numbers113–123
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Volume5
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