Relationship between unemployment and social identity

Abstract

The current study aims to uncover the nature and reality of unemployment through studying the personal motivation to seek work by the unemployed and the level of social identity among the unemployed graduates of the university (Erbil city model), in light of some variables such as gender (female - male), Social Situation( Married, single), specialization (human, scientific), and finally graduation year. The study was based on the descriptive approach. The researcher applied the measures of unemployment by measuring the personal motivation to look for work and the social identity scale on a random sample of (370) unemployed and unemployed graduates of the university. The study found that there is a positive correlation between the personal motivation to look for work and the social identity among the graduates of Salahaddin University.