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Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support (2024)
Journal Article
Basbug, G., & Sharone, O. (online). Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support. Journal of Career Development, https://doi.org/10.1177/08948453241282975

Drawing from the psychology of working and social resilience frameworks, this study introduces a novel intervention program to address the complex needs of long-term unemployed individuals. We examine the effectiveness of this novel intervention with... Read More about Job Search Interventions for Long-Term Unemployed Job Seekers: Comparing Approaches to Effective Support.

Lookism Climate in Organizations: Construct Development and Validation of a Scale (2023)
Journal Article
Dossinger, K., Wanberg, C. R., Song, Y., & Basbug, G. (online). Lookism Climate in Organizations: Construct Development and Validation of a Scale. Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231196555

Research suggests that physically attractive employees receive myriad workplace and career advantages compared to less attractive employees. Despite calls for more attention to the role of organizational context in understanding this phenomenon, a th... Read More about Lookism Climate in Organizations: Construct Development and Validation of a Scale.

Job search and employment success: A quantitative review and future research agenda. (2021)
Journal Article
van Hooft, E. A. J., Kammeyer-Mueller, J. D., Wanberg, C. R., Kanfer, R., & Basbug, G. (in press). Job search and employment success: A quantitative review and future research agenda. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(5), 674-713. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000675

Job search is an important activity that people engage in during various phases across the life span (e.g., school-to-work transition, job loss, job change, career transition). Based on our definition of job search as a goal-directed, motivational, a... Read More about Job search and employment success: A quantitative review and future research agenda..

The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status (2017)
Journal Article
Gokce Basbug, & Ofer Sharone. (2017). The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 3(3), 222-244. https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.10

Prior research shows that long-term unemployment (LTU) generates a negative emotional toll but leaves unexplored how such toll varies by gender and marital status. Using a mixed-methods approach we examine how the negative emotional toll of LTU is sh... Read More about The Emotional Toll of Long-Term Unemployment: Examining the Interaction Effects of Gender and Marital Status.

Navigating the Black Hole: Explicating Layers of Job Search Context and Adaptational Responses (2012)
Journal Article
Wanberg, C., Basbug, G., Van Hooft, E. A., & Samtani, A. (2012). Navigating the Black Hole: Explicating Layers of Job Search Context and Adaptational Responses. Personnel Psychology, 65(4), 887-926. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12005

Via a qualitative study, we introduce and elucidate 5 layers of context-related job search demands (omnibus, organizational, social, task, and personal) that are encountered by both employed and unemployed job seekers. We develop a process model to p... Read More about Navigating the Black Hole: Explicating Layers of Job Search Context and Adaptational Responses.

The Development of the Job Stressor Appraisal Scale as Part of the Job Stress Battery (2012)
Journal Article
Türetgen, I. Ö., Berk, Ö. S., Basbug, G., & Unsal, P. (2012). The Development of the Job Stressor Appraisal Scale as Part of the Job Stress Battery. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 28(2), 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000103

This study introduces the psychometric qualities of the Job Stressor Appraisal Scale (JSAS), a part of the Job Stress Battery, which comprehensively measures job stress in terms of job stressors, moderators, and strains. The JSAS measures employees’... Read More about The Development of the Job Stressor Appraisal Scale as Part of the Job Stress Battery.