Researchers Find Basic Personality Changes are Linked to Unemployment
Changes in personality may add to challenge of finding work for job seekers.
Unemployment can change people’s core personalities, making some less conscientious, agreeable and open, which can make it difficult for them to find new jobs.
This startling new research, published by the American Psychological Association in the Journal of Applied Psychology, examines a sample of 6,769 German adults who took a standard personality test at two points over four years. Some 210 members of the sample group were unemployed from one to four years, and another 251 participants were unemployed for less than a year and then found jobs.
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