RT Journal Article
T1 Grieving for Job Loss and Its Relation to the Employability of Older Jobseekers
A1 Climent Rodríguez, José Antonio
A1 Navarro Abal, Yolanda
A1 López López, María Josefa
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 Aparicio García, Marta Evelia
AB Introduction: Loss of employment is an experience that is lived and interpreteddifferently depending on a series of individual variables, including the psychologicalresources available to the affected person as well as their perception of their degreeof employability. Losing one’s job can be one of the most painful and traumatic events aperson has to withstand. Following a dismissal, the worker needs to overcome a periodof emotional adaptation to the loss. But that period of grieving can also condition thejob searching process of the individual and can be influenced by different variables,highlighting the age and work experience. The objective of this study is to analyse therelationship between intensity and type of affliction due to the loss of employment inolder workers and their level of employability.Methods: We carried out a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study. Thesample consisted of 140 unemployed participants, from 19 to 65 years of age—users of Job Orientation in the Public Employment Service of Andalusia (Spain). Of thetotal participants, 66 were unemployed and over 45 years of age. They all took theLabour Insertion Potential Assessment Test and the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief,adapted for job loss.Results: Significant differences are shown in the grieving process due to loss ofemployment between both groups, with the older unemployed living the processmore intensely. In relation to the employability potential, differences are found betweenboth groups in terms of availability, perceived difficulties and fears. Interrelationshipsbetween total grieving intensity and the importance that older jobseekers give to workare also indicated.Conclusion: Loss of employment and the psychological and health consequences ofthis situation are identified with those that arise in the grieving process. Older workers present a series of features that determine that their job loss grieving process is moreintense and lasts longer than that of other younger workers, regardless of whether thejob loss was recent or not. On the other hand, it is shown that the intensity of grievingfor job loss is related to the decrease of certain variables that are part of the conceptof employability.
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1664-1078
YR 2019
FD 2019-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16407
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16407
LA eng
NO Climent Rodríguez, J. A., Navarro Abal, Y., López López, M. J., Gómez Salgado, J.,  Aparicio García, M. E. (2019). Grieving for Job Loss and Its Relation to the Employability of Older Jobseekers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00366
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026