Goal Orientation, Self-Regulation Strategies, and Job-Seeking Intensity in Unemployed Adults
Tags: GOAL (Psychology); JOB hunting; UNEMPLOYED; SELF-control; EMOTIONS (Psychology); MOTIVATION (Psychology)
Related Articles
- Go For The Emotional Gold. Katz, Dian // Lesbian News;Oct2008, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p34
The author offers her insights on harnessing a person's emotions and mastering his or her greatest attributes. The author believes that mastering one's emotions allows a person to have the ability to focus. The author cites an example of not accomplishing a goal because of the lack of motivation...
- What's Your Passion? Anderson, Nancy // Personal Excellence;Sep2006, Vol. 11 Issue 9, p12
The article enumerates ways on how find personal passion. The clues include doing the work even for free, sharp focus on mastery, becoming a better person while doing the work and unawareness of the passing of time. Likewise, there are signs when one is already skewing from his passion. It...
- Finding Flow. Jackson, Bruce H. // Personal Excellence;Sep2004, Vol. 9 Issue 9, p3
Provides tips on gaining opportunities for full engagement and joy in the pursuit of a goal. Description of the flow experience of people; Result of the experience of flow; Importance of having clear goals and objectives.
- Fear as a friend: Turn anxiety into motivation toward success. // Sales Insider;7/23/2008, Vol. 2 Issue 43, p2
The article offers tips on using fear as a motivation for a positive outcome. It advises to try changing focus whenever it is perceived that fear is getting in the way. The article notes that it is important to think of fear as a scale with positive fear on one side and negative fear on the...
- The Highest Goal. Ray, Michael // Personal Excellence;Nov2005, Vol. 10 Issue 11, p5
The article discusses the views of the author on living for the highest goal. If people are living for the highest goal, they are living a life of the spirit. People connect with their highest goal when they are awaken full of enthusiasm for the day and when they know they are making a...
- Countdown to Change. Strella, Eve // Personal Excellence;Nov2005, Vol. 10 Issue 11, p15
The article suggests several steps to achieving life goals. It is important to identify what a person wanted to launch. After identifying, select from the list of loves and see it happening. Maintaining enthusiasm is another way to achieve goals.
- 5 Steps to Reach a Very Big Goal. Trunk, Penelope // California Job Journal;3/9/2008, Vol. 26 Issue 1125, p5
The article presents several steps to reach a goal. It is stated that most of one's career goals depend on self-discipline. According to the author, changing one's behavior takes intense focus, and writing down the goals reminds the brain. Individuals are advised to travel in circles where the...
- Don’t interrupt me! Task interruption depletes the self’s limited resources. Freeman, Nicholas; Muraven, Mark // Motivation & Emotion;Sep2010, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p230
It is a common occurrence in daily life to be interrupted prior to completing a task. Such interruptions may have deleterious effects for limited self-resources, especially if they occur just prior to task completion. This hypothesis was tested in three experiments. In the first two,...
- Unemployed Individuals: Motives, Job-Search Competencies, and Job-Search Constraints as Predictors of Job Seeking and Reemployment. Wanberg, Connie R.; Kanfer, Ruth; Rotundo, Maria // Journal of Applied Psychology;Dec99, Vol. 84 Issue 6, p897
This study investigated 3 broad classes of individual-differences variables (job-search motives, competencies, and constraints) as predictors of job-search intensity among unemployed job seekers. Also assessed was the relationship between job-search intensity and reemployment success in a...
