Mediated Moderation or Moderated Mediation: relationship between Length of Unemployment, Resilience, Coping and Health

• Víctor Sojo ^[1] ; Leticia R. Guarino ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Central de Venezuela

     Universidad Central de Venezuela

     Venezuela

     
  2. [2] Universidad Simón Bolívar
• Localización: The Spanish Journal of Psychology, ISSN 1138-7416, Vol. 14, Nº. 1, 2011, págs. 272-281
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/rev_sjop.2011.v14.n1.24
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  • español

    El objetivo de la presente investigación fue evaluar un modelo de moderación mediada vs. mediación moderada que permitiera explicar la relación entre la duración del desempleo, una medida disposicional de resiliencia, los estilos de afrontamiento y la depresión y el funcionamiento social percibido en desempleados venezolanos. Para ello se administraron instrumentos de auto-informe a una muestra de 328 desempleados residentes en la ciudad de Caracas, Venezuela. Los resultados indicaron que el afrontamiento emocional operó como un factor mediador en la relación entre la resiliencia y la depresión. Asimismo, las personas más resilientes usan más el afrontamiento por desapego cuando tienen más tiempo desempleadas, mientras que las personas menos resilientes en esa misma condición hacen menos afrontamiento evitativo. La resiliencia operó como factor moderador del impacto de la duración del desempleo sobre el funcionamiento social, actuando como un factor protector, proceso que estuvo mediado por el afrontamiento por desapego emocional. En síntesis, los resultados apoyan un modelo de moderación mediada, siendo la resiliencia el factor moderador y el afrontamiento el factor mediador en el impacto del estrés por la duración del desempleado sobre la salud.

  • English

    The aim of the present research was to evaluate a model of mediated moderation vs. moderated mediation that could explain the relationship between length of unemployment, dispositional resilience, coping styles and depression and social functioning of Venezuelan unemployed individuals. Self-report measures were administered to a sample of 328 unemployed residents in Caracas, Venezuela. Results indicated that emotional coping acted as a mediator in the relationship between resilience and depression. Individuals with greater resilience used more detachment coping when unemployment was longer, while individuals with poorer resilience in the same situation used less avoidance coping. Resilience acted as a protective moderating factor between longer periods of unemployment and social functioning, a process mediated by detachment coping. Overall, results supported a mediated moderation model, with resilience as the moderating factor and coping as the mediator in the relation between stress due to the length of unemployment and well-being.

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