This study examines the factors that influence the job hopefulness and job search intentions of job seekers with a disability and/or health impairment. Perceived labour market discrimination,...Show moreThis study examines the factors that influence the job hopefulness and job search intentions of job seekers with a disability and/or health impairment. Perceived labour market discrimination, occupational self-efficacy (OCSE) and coping (preparation and raising awareness) are taken into account. The online cross-sectional survey was distributed through organisations and Academic Prolific, resulting in both Dutch and native English-speaking participants, with different types of disabilities and health-impairments (N = 169). A multiple regression analysis revealed that perceived labour market discrimination did not relate to OCSE beyond control variables (age, job status). A mediation analysis found that perceived labour market discrimination related directly and negatively to job hopefulness, without mediation by OCSE. Another multiple regression analysis found that OCSE related directly and positively to job hopefulness beyond control variables (age, handicap visibility). A subsequent mediation analysis found a positive direct effect of OCSE on job search, but this was not mediated by job hopefulness. Lastly, moderation analyses showed no significant moderation by either of the coping styles on the relationship between perceived labour market discrimination and OCSE. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations and suggestions for further research, are also discussed.Show less
This research addresses the willingness to join a nonprofit organization as a volunteer of people who perceive that their social identity is different from the social identity of the current...Show moreThis research addresses the willingness to join a nonprofit organization as a volunteer of people who perceive that their social identity is different from the social identity of the current volunteers of the organization. Specifically, a social identity approach was applied, and it was predicted that for non-volunteers who have atypical social identities the organizational warmth, organizational morality, and organizational communications about the value of social identity, would influence the motivation to join the non-profit organization through psychological safety and organizational trust as mediators. The online research, for which non-volunteers who have atypical social identities were recruited as research participants via the Academic Prolific Online Platform (n = 184), had a 4-cell between subjects’ experimental design (organizational warmth, organizational morality, communications of social identity value versus ‘Wikipedia information’ control condition). The participants were presented the US Fire Brigade as type of non-profit organization, were thereafter randomly allocated across the experimental conditions, and subsequently completed a questionnaire that recorded the variables of the research. The data was analyzed using one-way ANOVAs and multiple mediating regressions analyses. ANOVAs showed that the manipulations of organizational warmth and the organizational communications about the value of social identity were successful, but also that the manipulation of organizational morality was not successful. Subsequently, a one-way ANOVA showed that organizational warmth and the organizational communications about the value of social identity instilled trust in the organization and sense of psychological safety in the participants. Thereafter, mediation regression analyses showed that organizational warmth and organizational communications about social identity value related significantly and indirectly related to the motivation to join the non-profit organization as a volunteer through organizational trust and sense of psychological safety. The implications, limitations, and suggestions for further research, of the study are discussed.Show less
