Abstract
BackgroundThe present study aimed to explore the relationship between job-search self-efficacy and reemployment willingness among older adults, as well as roles of achievement motivation and age in this relationship.MethodsThree hundred and sixty-five Chinese retired older adults were recruited from five neighborhoods in a city via convenience sampling, and they were measured by the Job Search Self-Efficacy Scale and the Achievement Motivation Scale (AMS).ResultsResults revealed that job-search self-efficacy significantly positively predicted reemployment willingness. Achievement motivation played a partial mediating role in the relationship between the job-search self-efficacy and reemployment willingness. Age moderated the relationship between job-search self-efficacy and reemployment willingness.ConclusionsThese findings showed that increasing the job-search self-efficacy and achievement motivation could effectively promote older adults’ reemployment willingness. The present study provided a theoretical basis for caring for older adults’ reemployment willingness.
Highlights
Reemployment of older adults can promote the development of the labor resources, and change the consumer pension into a productive pension, which alleviate the pressure of social endowment, and effectively protect such individuals’ physical and mental health [18, 36]
This study focused on the reemployment willingness of older adults before reemployment behavior, which refers to the willingness of the older adults over 60 years old to reemployment [7]
We proposed: Hypothesis 5: age could play a moderating role in the direct path by which job‐search self‐efficacy affects the reemployment willingness of older adults In summary, the current study explores the relationship between job-search self-efficacy and reemployment willingness among older adults
Summary
Reemployment of older adults can promote the development of the labor resources, and change the consumer pension into a productive pension, which alleviate the pressure of social endowment, and effectively protect such individuals’ physical and mental health [18, 36]. This study bases on older adults’ mental state, and aims to explore the internal mechanism between job-search self-efficacy and older adults’ reemployment willingness to help alleviate the pressure of social endowment, and realize the benefits of older adults. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between job-search self-efficacy and reemployment willingness among older adults, as well as roles of achievement motivation and age in this relationship
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