GIUV2017-352
The Psychology of Work and Organisations has a long research tradition into the problem of young people's employability, as well as the career that young people follow in the labour market. Among other topics, attention has been paid to career guidance prior to entering the labour market, vocational guidance when choosing training or integration itineraries, the qualifications and personal competences of young people, the difficulties and adaptation process of young people who have recently entered the labour market, as well as the consequences that a greater or lesser adjustment between the expectations and qualifications of young people and the labour demands and experiences lived during integration have on various aspects (job satisfaction, expectations for the future, work motivation, career development, etc.). Likewise, the profound changes that the world of work and organisations have undergone in recent decades have had a major influence on the integration of young people into the labour market and their consequences on a large number of psychosocial variables (personal adjustment, psychological well-being, job insecurity, stress, etc.). Furthermore, the labour force...The Psychology of Work and Organisations has a long research tradition into the problem of young people's employability, as well as the career that young people follow in the labour market. Among other topics, attention has been paid to career guidance prior to entering the labour market, vocational guidance when choosing training or integration itineraries, the qualifications and personal competences of young people, the difficulties and adaptation process of young people who have recently entered the labour market, as well as the consequences that a greater or lesser adjustment between the expectations and qualifications of young people and the labour demands and experiences lived during integration have on various aspects (job satisfaction, expectations for the future, work motivation, career development, etc.). Likewise, the profound changes that the world of work and organisations have undergone in recent decades have had a major influence on the integration of young people into the labour market and their consequences on a large number of psychosocial variables (personal adjustment, psychological well-being, job insecurity, stress, etc.). Furthermore, the labour force participation and employment rates of young people have recurrently shown significantly worse data than those of other groups, in different contexts and for many years now, regardless of fluctuations depending on the economic situation. The psychology of work and organisations has focused on the effects of youth unemployment, job discontinuity and difficulties in finding employment, as well as on variables related to job search, employability and psychosocial and environmental characteristics that can favour better labour market integration and reduce the adverse effects of situations such as unemployment, over-qualification or the mismatch between job expectations and job demands. In this line, IDOCAL has participated in numerous studies and projects on this subject, from studies on the meaning of work and the socialisation of young people (WOSY Project, carried out from the end of the 1980s), to the collaboration with different projects developed in OPAL, and the participation in the Observatory for Young People¿s Labour Market Integration (IVIE-Bancaja), which carried out six waves of triannual national surveys from 1996 to 2011. This collaboration has produced numerous publications on the problems of young people¿s labour integration: the work values and expectations of young people in the period of their entry into the labour market, the different pathways of integration that young people follow, the degree of psychosocial adjustment that results after said integration, the meaning that young people attach to work in the context of their lives and their conception of it, as well as its evolution over time, the flexibility of young people in entering the labour market, over-qualification, job insecurity, the influence of the labour market situation and unemployment rates on young people's psychological well-being and their perceptions of employability, their coping mechanisms in such situations, as well as the psychological variables that favour work motivation and job search, such as self-efficacy, proactivity or self-regulation.
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- Analizar los niveles de inseguridad laboral, empleabilidad y el bienestar psicologico de los jovenes en proceso de insercion en el mercado de trabajo, asi como las variables de caracter psicosocial y ocupacional que influyen en su inseguridad laboral, su empleabilidad y su bienestar psicologico.
- Analizar el papel que desempeña la situacion del mercado de trabajo en las relaciones existentes entre la empleabilidad, la inseguridad laboral y el bienestar psicologico de los jovenes en proceso de insercion laboral.
- Analizar los procesos, estrategias e itinerarios de insercion laboral de los jovenes y los recursos psicologicos implicados en los procesos de insercion laboral.
- Analizar el ajuste laboral de los jovenes en su proceso de insercion laboral, la flexibilidad laboral y la sobre-cualificacion ocupacional.
- Evaluar los recursos y variables psicosociales implicadas en la insercion laboral y diseñar estrategias de optimizacion (adaptabilidad de carrera).
- Employability, labour market integration and career adaptability.To analyse the relationships between employability, job insecurity, labour market and psychological well-being of young people. To analyse processes and strategies for the integration of young people and their level of adjustment. To assess and optimise psychological resources for labour market integration-career adjustment.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSE RAMOS LOPEZ | Director | Universitat de València | |
| Research team | |||
| PILAR GONZALEZ NAVARRO | Collaborator | Universitat de València | |
| M AMPARO RAMOS LOPEZ | Collaborator | Universitat de València | |
| FERNANDO JOSE PONS VERDU | Collaborator | Universitat de València | |
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- Institute for Res. of the Psy. of Hum. Res. Org. (IDOCAL)
- Empleabilidad, inserción laboral, mercado de trabajo, adaptabilidad de carrera, ajuste de carrera, sobrecualificación, inserción laboral
