@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/2006.019.002.001, author = "Brenninkmeijer, Veerle and Van Houwelingen, Arjan and Blonk, Roland and Van Yperen, Nico", title = "Geloof in eigen kunnen: het effect van JOBS, een groepsinterventie voor werklozen", journal= "Gedrag & Organisatie", year = "2006", volume = "19", number = "2", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/2006.019.002.001", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/2006.019.002.001", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "1875-7235", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "self-efficacy", keywords = "unemployment", keywords = "JOBS-training,zelfeffectiviteit,werkloosheid", keywords = "JOBS training", abstract = "Self-efficacy: the Effect of JOBS, a Group Intervention for the Unemployed Self-efficacy: the Effect of JOBS, a Group Intervention for the Unemployed Veerle Brenninkmeijer, Arjan Van Houwelingen, Roland Blonk & Nico Van Yperen, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 19, Juni 2006, nr. 2, pp. 97. This study is about the JOBS training, a group training for the unemployed (Vinokur, Van Ryn, Gramlich & Price, 1991) by increasing individuals' self-efficacy. First, a theoretical comparison was made between Bandura's (1977a) four sources of self-efficacy and the components of the JOBS training. Subsequently, we tested the effect of JOBS on self-efficacy in a longitudinal study among 281 JOBS participants. JOBS indeed increased the self-efficacy at both the short and long term (after one and six months). The increase on the short term was stronger among women. The increase in self-efficacy was not related to the actual job finding, but the absolute level of self-efficacy was. ", }