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Title: Effect of Students' Self-Esteem on Later Employment Status: Interactions of Self-Esteem with Gender and Race
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Dooley, David Prause, JoAnn |
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Effect of Students' Self-Esteem on Later Employment Status: Interactions of Self-Esteem with Gender and Race Applied Psychology: An International Review 46,2 (April 1997): 175-198. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997.tb01223.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Employment; Ethnic Differences; High School; Racial Differences; Self-Esteem; Sexual Activity; Unemployment Used panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test whether prior psychological status would predict later workforce outcomes in non-college-bound young people. Self-esteem measured in 1980, while respondents were still in high school, was used to predict employment status in 1987 (N=3,055) and proportion of time spent unemployed in the years between leaving school and 1987 (N=1,905). Results show that high school students with lower self-esteem were more likely to be unemployed but that this relationship was stronger for males than females and for Whites than for Blacks. These findings were interpreted in terms of self-esteem as a psychological asset in securing and holding employment. The gender and race differences in the value of this asset were considered in terms of social repression (sexism and racism) and in terms of different sources and meanings of self-esteem across gender and racial groups. (PsycINFO Database Copyright 1997 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved.) |
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Dooley, David and JoAnn Prause. "Effect of Students' Self-Esteem on Later Employment Status: Interactions of Self-Esteem with Gender and Race." Applied Psychology: An International Review 46,2 (April 1997): 175-198.
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