Specific Factors Underlying Reemployment Self-Efficacy: Comparing Control Belief and Motivational Reason Methods for the Recently Unemployed

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-437

  Westaby, James D ^a   Braithwaite, Kenneth N ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

control beliefs; job search; motivational reasons; reemployment self efficacy; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990366418     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886303261234     Document Type: Article

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