Personal psychological resources, resilience and self-efficacy and their relationship with psychological distress in situations of unemployment / Los recursos psicológicos personales, resiliencia y autoeficacia, y su relación con el malestar psicológico en situaciones de desempleo. Issue 2 (4th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fernández-Valera, María-Magdalena; Soler-Sánchez, María-Isabel; García-Izquierdo, Mariano; Meseguer de Pedro, Mariano
• Is Part Of: Revista de psicología social. Volume 34:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 331
• Page End: 353
• Publication Date: 2019-05-04
• Subjects: self-efficacy -- unemployment -- psychological distress -- resilience; autoeficacia -- desempleo -- malestar psicológico -- resiliencia; Social psychology -- Periodicals; Social psychology; Periodicals; 302
• DOI: 10.1080/02134748.2019.1583513
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0213-4748

Abstract

Abstract: According to Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory (1989), psychological resources such as resilience and self-efficacy could mediate the effects of unemployment on well-being. The objective of this study is to analyse the mediating role of self-efficacy and resilience on the relationship between the amount of time unemployed and psychological distress. A sample of unemployed persons from the Region of Murcia was used ( N = 280). With a transversal design and using the macro PROCESS for SPSS (2013), a multiple mediation model is proposed which analyses the mediating role of psychological resources in relation to the amount of time unemployed and self-perceived health. The explained variance of this model is 23.79%. The results show that only self-efficacy partially mediates in the relationship between the two variables (β = .18, SD = 0.06, p < .01). The main contribution of this article is showing that personal psychological resources are an effective tool to cope with life stressors, such as, in this case, unemployment.