Alexis Le Blanc

Social self-description and affective well-being in young unemployed people a comparative study

Abstract From the perspective of psychosocial stress, the period when young people are seeking their first job may be seen as a potential threat to self, which could activate sociocognitive and affective strategies for the maintenance or construction of a positive social identity. Our research has examined some of these strategies, highlighting social self-description as the product of comparison between self and social groups consisting of workers (relative deprivation) and unemployed people (self-enhancement). Our hypotheses are: (1) social self-description is a function of the quality of the social interactions of young unemployed people; and (2) the psychological consequences of unemployment (the severity of minor psychiatric disorders and the affective attitude towards the future) vary according to social self-description. These hypotheses were tested on two groups of young people in search of employment: 208 Italians (104 males and 104 females) aged between 17 and 19; 169 French (62 males and 107 fe...

The Role of Attributional Styles in Personal Investment Behaviours in Situations of Professional Training

The rapid and multiform evolution of socio-technical environments reported in recent research in work and organizational psychology Meaning of Work has led to a pressing need for the full understanding of increasingly complex phenomena and processes. In this article we attempt to show how explanation is linked to these evolutions, in its functions of analysis, management, and anticipation of the functioning of organizations. We take the view that explanation also constitutes, for each individual, a differentiated process of cognitive and identity regulation. By considering the modes of cognitive and temporal investment of salaried adults in training situations, we show how their behaviour depends on differentiated attributional styles, themselves a function of situational characteristics gender, professional domain, etc. According to certain theoretical and practical points of view, the acquisition and transfer of valued attributional styles, such as the norm of internality, constitute objectives to be fa...

Nature et significations des échanges entre domaines de vie : l’exemple des nouveaux cadres de l’Action Sociale

Resume L’acces a un premier poste de manager implique pour les professionnels concernes une reflexion sur leurs engagements en differents champs et temps de leur socialisation, sur leurs modalites d’articulation et sur les possibilites de les concilier. En reference au modele d’une socialisation active parce que plurielle et conflictuelle, qui recuse une approche dichotomique des rapports entre vie de travail et vie hors travail, les processus de signification des rapports entre domaines de vie orientent, en dialogues avec autrui, l’organisation des echanges entre domaines de vie. L’analyse d’entretiens approfondis menes aupres de nouveaux cadres de l’Action Sociale met en evidence que ces echanges se developpent sur differents registres : temporel, informationnel, relationnel, emotionnel, axiologique, ideologique et symbolique.