The psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers: invariance measurement model and mean differences

Vinicius Coscioni; Catarina Luzia de Carvalho; Maria do Ceu Taveira; Ana Daniela Silva

doi:10.1007/s12144-023-04565-6

The psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers: invariance measurement model and mean differences

Vinicius Coscioni, Catarina Luzia de Carvalho, Maria do Ceu Taveira, Ana Daniela Silva^*

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Abstract

This study compared the psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. It used the data from two previous data collections, one with unemployed individuals and another with workers. Participants from the two datasets were paired considering the same gender and similar age and education degree. The analyzed sample consisted of 352 participants, of which 176 were unemployed individuals and 176 were workers. The psychological future was measured by the Future Time Orientation Scale and the Life Project Scale. Both scales fit the sample of unemployed individuals and were invariant at the metric level across occupation status. Partial scalar model met good fit after freeing the intercepts of one item in each scale. In contrast to the hypothesis, compared to workers, unemployed individuals did not have lower rates in the assessed features of their psychological future. Conversely, for some variables, the rates were even higher among unemployed individuals. Unexpected results and limitations are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3254-3265
Number of pages	12
Journal	Current Psychology
Volume	43
Issue number	4
Early online date	29 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04565-6
Publication status	Published - Jan 2024
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). This study was conducted at the Psychology Research Centre (PSI/01662), School of Psychology, University of Minho, supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Portuguese State Budget (Ref.:UIDB/PSI/01662/2020).

Funders	Funder number
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	UIDB/01662/2020, UIDB/PSI/01662/2020
Centro de Matemática, Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho

Keywords

Factor analysis
Future time orientation
Invariance measurement
Life project
Psychological future
Unemployed individuals

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