Abstract
The present study aimed to develop a scale to measure job-hunting maintenance processes, that is, the processes by which university students maintain their job-hunting activities after having received rejections from companies that they had applied to; in addition, the reliability and validity of the scale was examined. The participants were undergraduate and graduate students who had finished their job-hunting activities. In Study 1 (N = 212), the scale was developed, and it was demonstrated that the scale had sufficient internal consistency and validity. In Study 2 (TV = 72), relations between job-hunting maintenance processes and the time of the students' job-hunting period were analyzed. The results suggested that the job-seekers' behavior was different, depending on the time of their job-hunting. The new scale successfully predicted the processes. For example, at the beginning of the students' job-hunting (the primary process), the job-seekers tended to engage in present-oriented behavior, in order to maintain their job-hunting activity. As they gradually became more experienced with job-hunting (the secondary process), they tended to engage in future-oriented (goal-oriented) behavior, such as setting attainable goals. These results suggest that the new scale may be effective for differentiating between the primary and secondary processes involved in job-hunting maintenance.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 386-400 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- Career exploration
- Failure experi-ence
- Job-hunting by Japanese university students
- Processes
- Scale development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Education
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Measuring job-hunting maintenance processes of Japanese university students : Scale development. / Karube, Yuki; Sugie, Masashi; Sato, Jun.
In: Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015, p. 386-400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Karube, Yuki
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AU - Sato, Jun
PY - 2015
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N2 - The present study aimed to develop a scale to measure job-hunting maintenance processes, that is, the processes by which university students maintain their job-hunting activities after having received rejections from companies that they had applied to; in addition, the reliability and validity of the scale was examined. The participants were undergraduate and graduate students who had finished their job-hunting activities. In Study 1 (N = 212), the scale was developed, and it was demonstrated that the scale had sufficient internal consistency and validity. In Study 2 (TV = 72), relations between job-hunting maintenance processes and the time of the students' job-hunting period were analyzed. The results suggested that the job-seekers' behavior was different, depending on the time of their job-hunting. The new scale successfully predicted the processes. For example, at the beginning of the students' job-hunting (the primary process), the job-seekers tended to engage in present-oriented behavior, in order to maintain their job-hunting activity. As they gradually became more experienced with job-hunting (the secondary process), they tended to engage in future-oriented (goal-oriented) behavior, such as setting attainable goals. These results suggest that the new scale may be effective for differentiating between the primary and secondary processes involved in job-hunting maintenance.
AB - The present study aimed to develop a scale to measure job-hunting maintenance processes, that is, the processes by which university students maintain their job-hunting activities after having received rejections from companies that they had applied to; in addition, the reliability and validity of the scale was examined. The participants were undergraduate and graduate students who had finished their job-hunting activities. In Study 1 (N = 212), the scale was developed, and it was demonstrated that the scale had sufficient internal consistency and validity. In Study 2 (TV = 72), relations between job-hunting maintenance processes and the time of the students' job-hunting period were analyzed. The results suggested that the job-seekers' behavior was different, depending on the time of their job-hunting. The new scale successfully predicted the processes. For example, at the beginning of the students' job-hunting (the primary process), the job-seekers tended to engage in present-oriented behavior, in order to maintain their job-hunting activity. As they gradually became more experienced with job-hunting (the secondary process), they tended to engage in future-oriented (goal-oriented) behavior, such as setting attainable goals. These results suggest that the new scale may be effective for differentiating between the primary and secondary processes involved in job-hunting maintenance.
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