@article{8755574,
  abstract     = {{Age discrimination may explain lower labour market chances of older and younger job seekers. What remains underresearched, however, is how older/younger job seekers might self-select out from early recruitment procedures due to stigmatizing information in job ads. Building on theories of metastereotypes and the linguistic category model, two
experimental studies investigated how personality requirements that older/younger job seekers hold negative metastereotypes about and the way in which these requirements are worded (behavioural vs. dispositional) affected their job attraction. Within-participant mediation analyses showed that as expected, job attraction was higher for older (N = 123, aged 50 years or more) and younger (N = 151, 30 years or less) job seekers when requirements were worded in a behavioural way (e.g., ‘You can be flexible’), compared with a dispositional way (e.g., ‘You are flexible’). This relation
was mediated by perceptions of challenge among younger but not older job seekers. Contrary to expectations, perceptions of threat did not explain the effects of negatively metastereotyped personality requirements on job attraction. Understanding how job seekers perceive information in job ads might help recruiters to design age-sensitive recruitment policies.}},
  author       = {{Koçak, Aylin and Rooman, Claudia and Duyck, Wouter and Derous, Eva}},
  issn         = {{0963-1798}},
  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY}},
  keywords     = {{Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Applied Psychology,diversity,aging workforce,recruitment,STEREOTYPE THREAT,AGE STEREOTYPES,PERFORMANCE,WORKPLACE,IMPACT,METAANALYSIS,DIMENSIONS,EMPLOYMENT,PSYCHOLOGY,WORKER}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{718--737}},
  title        = {{Mind the ad : how personality requirements affect older and younger job seekers' job attraction}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12396}},
  volume       = {{95}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

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