Małgorzata KlimkaInstitute of Applied PsychologyUniversity of Social Sciences

Międzynarodowe seminarium na temat edukacji kobiet z regionów wiejskich

12 June 2013 in Lodz

Educational situation of unemployed women

in rural areas of the Lodz Region

Presentation plan

1. The requirements of the labour market and the situation of

women living in rural areas of the Lodz Region.

2. Information on the research.

3. Characteristics of the study group.

4. Research tools.

5. The results of the research.

6. Summary

Introduction

„Labour market – comprises the whole of issues related with

the development of labour supply and labour demand, labour

market is the place where transactions of labour purchase, i.e.

hiring employees, and labour sales take place. The demand is

represented by employers offering job positions, while the

supply is represented by those who are seeking employment.”

Introduction

It is beyond doubt that recent decades have contributed to the

occurrence of changes on the labour market. Contemporarily,

it is shaped by such factors as:

•globalisation,

•increase of the significance of the service sector

•changing systems of values

•increase of the significance of self-employment

•dynamic development of technology

Introduction

In this context, special attention is needed for the functioning

of workers adaptation in the labour market, inter alia, in terms

of driving adequate education programmes. This is especially

true for people who could be at risk of exclusion from the

labour market from the point of view of my research –

unemployed women in rural areas.

Females by educational level

Specification

Grand total

Tertiary Post-second

ary

Secondary - total

Secondary -

general

Secondary -

vocationaly

Basic vocatio

nal

Primary Incomplete

primary

Total 16326,3 1755,5 775,9 5142,5 1961,5 3181,0 2860,9 4886,0 905,3

Urban area

10506,3 1459,0 600,6 3813,6 1586,8 2226,9 1608,3 2533,4 491,0

Rural area

5820,0 296,1 175,3 1328,8 374,8 954,1 1252,6 2352,8 414,3

Aim of the research

1. Analysis of self-perception of women from the study group

in terms of the perception of their own education and

qualifications as attractive to a potential employer.

2. Analysis of the level of stress by respondents in terms of

their educational situation.

3. Sense of coherence of women in the context of the

educational situation.

Characteristics of the group:living area

TThe study involved 30 women, residing in villages

belonging to the Głowno municipality.

Characteristics of the group:age

The average age of women is 47.5.

The youngest was 24.0 years old, the oldest 57.0.

Women were registered as unemployed in Labour Office in

Głowno and took part in the study from January to May 2013.

Characteristics of the group:education

Higher education - 3

Vocational education - 7

Secondary education - 7

Vocational secondary education - 8

Basic education - 5

Theoretical framework

1. The concept of salutogenesis by A. Antonovsky

2. Ways of dealing with stress concept by N.S. Endler and J.D.A

Parker

Salutogenesis

“Global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has

a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that

the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external

environments in the course of living are structured, predictable

and explicable, the resources are available to one to meet the

demands posed by these stimuli; and these demands are

challenges, worthy of investment and engagement.”

Sense of coherence

• Comprehensibility,

• Manageability,

• Meaningfulness.

Ways of dealing with stress

• Style focused on the task,

• Style focused on emotions,

• Style focused on avoidance.

Research tools

- Life orientation questionnaire SOC (Sense Of Coherence

Scale) by A. Antonovsky

- Personality Inventory NEO-FFI by Costa and Mc Crae; in the

Polish adaptation by B. Zawadzki, J. Strelau , P. Szczepaniak

and M. Śliwińska (1998).

- Questionnaire to analyze the perception of self-image in the

labour market

Thank you for your attention,

Małgorzata Klimka.