The Relationship between Career-Related Knowledge, Self-Esteem, Locus of Control, Gender and Employment Outcomes among Individuals with Learning Disabilities

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Marie Mathis ◽  
Richard T. Roessler
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Employment Outcome ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Services ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Data selected from the 1994-1999 Longitudinal Study of the Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program were used to examine the contribution of self-esteem, career-related knowledge, locus of control, and gender to the prediction of employment outcome experienced by individuals with learning disabilities (LD), as well as to hourly wages, weekly hours worked, and job satisfaction. Using logistic regression analyses, no independent variables studied were predictive of employment outcome for all participants (n = 240) or receiving workplace benefits for those who were employed (n = 63). Multiple regression analyses indicated that gender (p < .01) and belief in chance (p < .05) significantly predicted hourly wages for participants who were employed. Career-related knowledge was a significant (p < .05) predictor of job satisfaction.

scholarly journals Do Locus of Control, Self-esteem, Hope and Shame Mediate the Relationship Between Financial Hardship and Mental Health?

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Frankham ◽  
Thomas Richardson ◽  
Nick Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Financial Hardship ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In a longitudinal study of 104 participants, the psychological factors of economic locus of control, self-esteem, hope and shame were explored for their impact on the relationship between financial hardship and mental health. Participants completed measures of financial hardship, the psychological factors and measures of mental health three times at three-monthly intervals. A hierarchical regression analyses indicated that subjective financial hardship, hope and shame significantly predicted mental health outcomes. Mediation analyses demonstrated that hope mediated the relationship between subjective financial hardship and depression, stress and wellbeing; that shame mediated the relationship between subjective financial hardship and anxiety; and that neither shame nor hope mediated the relationship between subjective financial hardship and suicide ideation.

CORRELATES OF SOCIALLY RESTRICTIVE AND AUTHORITARIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD MENTAL PATIENTS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Morrison ◽  
A. F. De Man ◽  
A. Drumheller
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
University Students ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Ninety-two university students (55 women; 37 men) participated in a study of the relationship between authoritarian and socially restrictive attitudes toward mental patients and the variables of trait -anxiety, self-esteem, locus of control, age, and gender. Results of multivariate analyses showed that individuals who score high in authoritarianism tend to be young, male, and believers in chance and fate (external locus of control). A similar pattern was found for social restrictiveness.

scholarly journals The Effect of Gender Roles on Job Satisfaction: A Study on the Employees Working in Government Academic Sector in Haryana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Deepa Sharma ◽  
Venkateswaran
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Sector

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of gender roles of the employees working in the government academic sector in Haryana on job satisfaction. Gender roles, responsibilities, of the employees, are independent variables and Job satisfaction is a dependent variable in this study. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS, T-Test. The result indicates that Gender has no effect on the job satisfaction of the employees; on the other hand, age has a significant impact on the level of Job satisfaction. Further, the study also reveals that there is a significant difference in the opinion of males and females in terms of social awareness and commitment. The aim of this study was to investigate the working employee’s job satisfaction in government academic sector in Haryana. Organizational commitment, and self-esteem levels, reveals the relationship between the genders, and to examine the relationship between them. The discoveries of the examination would give important data to the executives in understanding the variables that influence work fulfillment. The academicians are the posts in the development of any nation as they put their events into developing the individuals who at last lead to a well-to-do economy, so the current examination depends on work fulfillment among the employees in different foundations. The discoveries of the exploration would give significant data to the directors in understanding the elements that influence work fulfillment.

Locus of Control, Repression-Sensitization, and Interpersonal Causality

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Spring ◽  
Prabha Khanna
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between repression-sensitization and multidimensional locus of control, particularly as these variables relate to a third variable, the attribution of causality in interpersonal relationships. 41 male psychiatric inpatients were employed as subjects, of whom 18 were from an acute general inpatient unit and 23 were from an alcohol and drug unit. Eight independent variables were considered. There were eight dependent variables which were derived from an attribution measure devised for this study. Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that the variable having the most predictive power with respect to causal attributions was the subsample which the subject represented. A second analysis excluding subsample considerations showed that Levenson's Powerful Others scale was positively correlated with Internal-Positive attributions. Other significant correlations between the various measures were examined.

scholarly journals Who Likes What Kind of News? The Relationship Between Characteristics of Media Consumers and News Interest

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110030
Author(s):  
Kai Kaspar ◽  
Lisa Anna Marie Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Information Filtering ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Explained Variance ◽  
The Relationship

Stimulated by the uses-and-gratification approach, this study examined the joint relation of several consumer characteristics to news interest. In total, 1,546 German-speaking participants rated their interest in 15 major news categories and several personal characteristics, including gender, age, the Big Five personality traits, self-esteem, as well as general positive and negative affect. Regression analyses examined the amount of interindividual variance in news interest that can be explained by this set of consumer characteristics. Overall, the amount of explained variance differed remarkably across news categories, ranging from 4% for entertainment-related news to 25% for news about technology. The most powerful explaining variables were participants’ gender, age, openness to experiences, and their amount of general positive affect. The results suggest that news interest should be defined and operationalized as a concept with multiple facets covering a huge range of content. Also, the results are important for media producers and journalists with respect to the conflict between increased need gratification of consumers and information filtering via personalized news content.

Body-Esteem Mediates The Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Social Anxiety: The Moderating Roles of Weight and Gender

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Abdollahi ◽  
Mansor Abu Talib ◽  
Mohammad Reza Vakili Mobarakeh ◽  
Vahid Momtaz ◽  
Roya Kavian Mobarake
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Body Esteem ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Locus of Control as a Predictor of Users' Attitude toward Computers

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1167-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael David Coovert ◽  
Melvin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Expectancy Theory ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
Attitudes Toward Computers ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
The Relationship

With the increasing influx of computers in industry modifying jobs and work environments, it is necessary to understand how workers may be reacting to computers. Locus of control, within the framework of valence-instrumentality-expectancy theory, is seen as an efficient predictor of workers' motivation and job satisfaction. Two experiments are described in which the relationship between locus of control and attitude toward computers is explored. Exp. 1 (68 subjects) demonstrates a relationship between locus of control and attitudes toward computers. Internal scorers had a more positive (favorable) attitude toward computers than external persons. Exp. 2 (65 subjects) attempts to clarify the possible dimensions on which externals may be viewing the computer more negatively (unfavorably) by utilizing a locus of control scale developed by Levenson (1973).

Occupational Needs as Moderators between Locus of Control and Job Involvement

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Riipinen
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Internal Locus ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Contradictory results have been published on the relationship of locus of control with job involvement, so in this study occupational needs were tested as moderators between the variables. Needs were measured with Ghiselli's Self-description Inventory, job involvement with Kanungo's Job Involvement scale, and locus of control with Pettersen's scale. Job involvement of 220 mainly female teachers was significantly predicted by extrinsic needs, and that of 213 female secretaries rather by intrinsic needs. Job involvement related to extrinsic needs was not associated with locus of control, while this relationship with intrinsic needs and job involvement was not needed for internal locus of control to correlate with job involvement. Especially the combination of strong intrinsic and extrinsic needs moderated the correlation, although locus of control could correlate with job involvement also for subjects with weak needs. The correlations were independent of internality of control or the amount of involvement. These results suggest that locus of control and job involvement are independent variables, and the former cannot be used as a predictor of the latter.

scholarly journals Exploring the antecedents of the mental health of business professionals in Sweden

Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-669
Author(s):  
Timur Uman ◽  
Pernilla Broberg ◽  
Torbjörn Tagesson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Mental Strain ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Relationship

BACKGROUND: Business professionals are an important occupational group that carries responsibility for the economic welfare of organizations and of society at large. These professionals have recently been reported to be experiencing increased mental strain, which may have a significant effect on the role they play in organizations and in society. Understanding the causes of this strain is thus an important endeavour. OBJECTIVE: This study explores the antecedents of the mental health of business professionals. METHODS: Multiple linear regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between business professionals’ mental health and its demographic, work-related, and other triggers. T-tests and descriptive statistics were used to explore the gender of the respondents in relation to these triggers and mental health. RESULTS: Compared with their male counterparts, female business professionals report poorer mental health; however, no gender differences were found in job satisfaction or life satisfaction. According to this study, age, overtime pay, higher salary and position as a manager have a positive relation with mental health, whereas working overtime has a negative relation with mental health. Job satisfaction and life satisfaction are important determinants of the mental health of business professionals. CONCLUSIONS: Business professionals are important to the economic welfare of their organization and of society as a whole. Our study suggests that demographic characteristics, work-related aspects and subjective dimensions of well-being have a profound effect on the mental health of business professionals.

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