Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Appl Psychol. 2009 Nov;94(6):1581-90. doi: 10.1037/a0017592.
Because unemployment has detrimental effects on the well-being of unemployed people, it is important that unemployed individuals move back to work. The present study aimed at improving the understanding of the job search and reemployment process by applying goal orientation theory to job seeking. Using a 3-group field experimental design among 109 unemployed job seekers, the authors examined the effects of situational learning and performance goal orientation on participants' job search intentions, job search behavior, and reemployment status. A situational focus on learning goals was found to be beneficial for the job search process, leading to more search intentions, more search behavior, and higher reemployment probabilities. These effects seemed to be independent of people's dispositional goal orientation. Findings indicate that goal orientation is a promising construct for both science and practice in the field of job seeking.
由于失业对失业人员的福祉有不利影响，因此让失业人员重新回到工作岗位是很重要的。本研究旨在通过将目标导向理论应用于求职，来增进对求职和再就业过程的理解。通过对 109 名失业求职者进行三组现场实验设计，作者研究了情境学习和绩效目标导向对参与者求职意向、求职行为和再就业状况的影响。发现对学习目标的情境关注有利于求职过程，从而增加求职意向、更多的求职行为和更高的再就业概率。这些影响似乎与人们的性格目标取向无关。研究结果表明，目标导向在求职领域的科学和实践中都是一个很有前途的构念。
