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Predicting self‐esteem during unemployment: The effect of gender, financial deprivation, alternate roles, and social support
Author(s) -
Waters Lea E.,
Moore Kathleen A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2002.tb00848.x
Subject(s) - self esteem , psychology , unemployment , social support , affect (linguistics) , social deprivation , intervention (counseling) , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , economics , communication , economic growth
Two hundred and one unemployed men and women participated in a cross‐sectional study that assessed self‐esteem, financial deprivation, number of alternate roles, and use of social support. Financial deprivation, alternate roles, and social support each had a main effect on self‐esteem. In addition, these variables interacted with gender to affect self‐esteem. Specifically, financial deprivation had a greater negative association with self‐esteem in men as compared with women. In contrast, alternate roles and social support had a stronger positive relationship to self‐esteem in women than in men. The incorporation of these findings into intervention programs for unemployed persons is discussed.