RT Article
T1 The Connections of Parole and Probation Agent Communication Patterns With Female Offenders’ Job-Seeking Self-Efficacy
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 8
SP 774
OP 790
A1 Roddy, Ariel L.
A1 Morash, Merry 1946-
A2 Morash, Merry 1946-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698309864
AB Using subsamples of 130 and 96 women on probation and parole, this research explores the direct effect of the supervising agent’s communication patterns on client job-seeking self-efficacy. It also tests for the mediating effect through client psychological reactance, which is a feeling that one’s freedoms are threatened. Agent and client reports of a conformity pattern of communication were associated with lower levels of job-seeking self-efficacy. Client reactance mediated this relationship. Agent and client reports of a conversational pattern of communication were associated with increased job-seeking self-efficacy. The results suggest that conformity-oriented communication should be avoided because of its potential to increase reactance and to promote low job-seeking self-efficacy. In contrast, conversational communication appears to have more positive effects on job-seeking self-efficacy. Findings highlight communication as a pathway through which agents can improve behavioral outcomes for women offenders searching for work.
K1 Women offenders
K1 Probation and parole
K1 Employment
K1 Communication
K1 Reactance
K1 Job-seeking self-efficacy
DO 10.1177/0306624X19895963