PERSONALITY EMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN THE SUBJECTIVE PROJECTION OF THE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH WITH HIGHER EDUCATION
Open Access
- 25 June 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientia Socialis Ltd in Problems of Education in the 21st Century
- Vol. 80 (3), 456-473
- https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/22.80.456
Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to examine the employment crisis among the unemployed youth with higher education. In particular, the research investigates the subjective experience of the youth representatives (n = 188) in the situation of job loss or inability to find it. For this purpose, the research uses the method of ranking social and psychological spheres of the youth by the criterion of frustration in the situation of job loss or inability to find it, as well as the method of multidimensional scaling to determine cognitive constructs used by the youth in interpreting individual situations of professional exclusion or unclaimed labor. According to the results of ranking social and psychological spheres of life of the unemployed youth with higher education, such social spheres of life as "inability to use the profession" and "difficult financial situation" are most frustrated in the situation of job loss or inability to find it. The research also found that such psychological spheres of the youth as "uncertainty in the future" and "feelings of dependence on external circumstances" are most frustrated in the situation of professional exclusion or unclaimed labor. The scaling of social and psychological spheres of life of the unemployed youth with higher education allowed empirical explanation of cognitive constructs as a system of latent categories of the subjective experience, which determines the character of experiencing a personal employment crisis. These categories include "social assessment", "professional identification", "self-doubt - dependence on others "lack of perspective - feeling of inferiority". The results of the research allowed reconstructing the latent categories of the subjective experience of the unemployed youth with higher education who are experiencing a personal employment crisis in a situation of professional exclusion or unclaimed labor, which provides more favorable conditions for optimizing the process of psychological support and assistance to the unemployed youth taking into account the specifics of the subjective and psychological profile of their personality.Keywords
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