@article{ref1,
title="The connections of parole and probation agent communication patterns with female offenders' job-seeking self-efficacy",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2019",
author="Roddy, Ariel L. and Morash, Merry",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="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. <br><br>FINDINGS highlight communication as a pathway through which agents can improve behavioral outcomes for women offenders searching for work.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X19895963",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19895963"
}