The present study developed a job-hunting anxiety scale and investigated the influence of job-hunting anxiety on coping, number of job-hunting applications, and satisfaction with job-hunting. Questionnaires were completed by 306 college students who had started job-hunting. Explorative factor analysis extracted five factors such as "appeal anxiety" , "support anxiety" , "activity persistence anxiety" , "test anxiety" , and "a lack of readiness anxiety" . Analysis of covariance structures indicated that (a) job-hunting anxiety was negatively related to problem-focused coping, the number of job-hunting applications, and the satisfaction with job-hunting, and (b) problem-focused coping was positively related to the number of job-hunting applications and the satisfaction with job-hunting. These results suggest that reduction of job-hunting anxiety and the use of problem-focused coping facilitated job-hunting.
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Matsuda, Y., Nagasaku, M., & Arai, K. (2010). Influence of job-hunting anxiety on job-hunting: From the viewpoint of coping. Shinrigaku Kenkyu, 80(6), 512–519. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.80.512
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