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Medley-Proctor, Kristen N.

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Racial discrimination in the job search: Psychological implications for African Americans.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Racial discrimination in the job search: Psychological implications for African Americans./
Author:	Medley-Proctor, Kristen N.
Description:	148 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: B, page: 6697.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-12B.
Subject:	Psychology, Industrial. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3158515
ISBN:	9780496911790

Racial discrimination in the job search: Psychological implications for African Americans.
Medley-Proctor, Kristen N.

Racial discrimination in the job search: Psychological implications for African Americans. - 148 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: B, page: 6697.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The George Washington University, 2005.

According to the premises of three psychological theories, namely learned helplessness, reactance, and an integrative theory (which encompasses both learned helplessness and reactance), this study investigated the relationship between experiences with racial discrimination during the job search and three psychological outcomes: self-esteem, job search motivation, and job search behavior. The African American subgroup of job seekers who participated in the Couples Employment Project (a study designed to test the effectiveness of a preventive intervention for couples experiencing job loss) was the focus of this study.

ISBN: 9780496911790Subjects--Topical Terms:

520063
Psychology, Industrial.

Racial discrimination in the job search: Psychological implications for African Americans.
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520 $a According to the premises of three psychological theories, namely learned helplessness, reactance, and an integrative theory (which encompasses both learned helplessness and reactance), this study investigated the relationship between experiences with racial discrimination during the job search and three psychological outcomes: self-esteem, job search motivation, and job search behavior. The African American subgroup of job seekers who participated in the Couples Employment Project (a study designed to test the effectiveness of a preventive intervention for couples experiencing job loss) was the focus of this study.
520 $a Based on the tenets of learned helplessness theory, I predicted that racial discrimination would have a negative impact on the outcome variables. Also, based on the integrative theory, I expected that the negative relationship would be further qualified by a predominantly negative curvilinear relationship, where low levels of exposure to racial discrimination would yield higher amounts of self-esteem, motivation, and behavior while higher levels of exposure yield lower amounts. Incorporating expectancy-value theory, I also predicted that both the linear and curvilinear relationships would be mediated by job search attitude. In addition, exploratory analyses of the effects of potential moderating variables (e.g. age, gender, education) and covariates (e.g. number of weeks unemployed and gender discrimination) were addressed.
520 $a The results of the study demonstrated that neither theory provided blanket support for the effects of racial discrimination on African Americans. Self-esteem, job search motivation, and job search behavior are differentially sensitive to racial discrimination. Specifically, the directionality (non-significant) of the correlation between self-esteem and racial discrimination was negative, which follows the prediction of a learned helplessness effect. However, a positive relationship was found for job search motivation, providing support for reactance theory. Finally, in accordance with an integrative theory, a weak tendency toward a predominantly negative curvilinear relationship was identified for job search behavior. No mediation effect was found for job search expectancies. Exploratory analyses of the relationship between job search attitude and the outcome variables revealed an interaction effect for length of unemployment and education. Implications for the field are discussed.
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