Abstract
One of the efforts made by the government to reduce the unemployment rate in Indonesia is by conducting an overseas apprenticeship program. As an international assignment, this apprenticeship program leads to social problems such as stress. This research seeks to examine and analyze the influence of pre-departure training on acculturative stress with personal resources as a moderating variable. The respondents of this study were 215 migrant workers from West Java. This research used process analysis to analyze data. The result shows that there is a negative influence of pre-departure training on acculturative stress. Besides that, personal resources strengthen the influence of pre-departure training on acculturative stress. The higher a level of personal resources possessed, the more it will strengthen the influence of pre-departure training on acculturative stress. These findings support the statement that personal resources are one of the leading indicators that affect an individual's performance at work.JEL Classification: M53, J61How to Cite:Widayanti., & Sartika, D. (2020). Pre-Departure Training and Personal Resources: How it Affects Acculturative Stress?. Etikonomi: Jurnal Ekonomi, 19(1), 31 – 40. https://doi.org/10.15408/etk.v19i1.11884.
Highlights
The problem of unemployment has been a significant problem for a long time
The results show pre-departure training (r = 0.906), acculturative stress (r = 0.726), and personal resources (r = 0.897)
The R2 shows that the value is 0.6044. It means that the influence on pre-departure training on acculturative stress with personal resources as a moderating variable is 60.44%
Summary
According to the Central Statistics Agency, until February 2018, the number of workforces in Indonesia had reached 133.94 million. It increased by 2.9 million compared to the previous year, while the open unemployment rate in Indonesia reached 5.13% or reduced by around 140 thousand people compared to last year. This unemployment rate has been the lowest unemployment rate since the 1998 crisis (Katadata.co.id, 2018). One of the efforts made by the government to reduce the unemployment rate in Indonesia is by conducting an apprenticeship program abroad, namely Japan
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