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Decline of life satisfaction is a common consequence of unemployment together with thenegative self-view and lack of personal control. The effectiveness of the training of the socialcompetencies in changing the sense of personal coherence, social beliefs and life satisfaction of theunemployed was probed. Eighty unemployed persons participated in a longitudinal study witha control group. Although the participants did not differ significantly at the beginning of the study,these unemployed persons who participated in the social competencies training reported after6 months significantly higher sense of personal coherence, more positive vision of socialsystem and enhanced life satisfaction. Unemployed from the control group after 6 monthsexperienced a significant decline in life satisfaction, deterioration of sense of personal coherenceand reported more negative vision of social system. The model of impact of social competencetraining on the change of life satisfaction of the unemployed being mediated by the change ofthe sense of personal coherence and change in system justification was tested and proved tofit the data. In conclusion, training social competence of unemployed may be crucial to preventa decline of their life satisfaction and enhance the belief in their own abilities to cope withthe stressful experience of being unemployed.

Managerial positions involve influencing others, hence the importance of studying the standards guiding managers' attitudes, decisions, and behavior. Drawing on structural theories and psychological findings on the effects of subjective social status, we predict that holding a managerial position is related to individual value structure via self-perceived social rank of those in managerial positions. We argue that holding a managerial position is associated positively with prioritizing values reflecting personal focus (self-enhancement and openness to change value types) and, as a consequence, negatively with prioritizing values reflecting social focus (self-transcendence and conservation value types). Using data from the European Social Survey 2012 (N = 48,105) from 29 countries, we found a mediating effect of subjective social status between holding a managerial position and personal versus social focus not moderated by the country context. We discuss the implications of these findings for psychological theories of social hierarchy and managerial practice.

In three studies we examine the link between types of national identity and support for leaving the European Union (EU). We found that national collective narcissism (but not national identification without the narcissistic component) was positively associated with a willingness to vote Leave, over and above the effect of political orientation. This pattern was observed in a representative Polish sample (Study 1, n = 635), as well as in samples of Polish youth (Study 2, n = 219), and both Polish (n = 73) and British (n = 60) professionals employed in the field of international relations (Study 3). In Studies 2 and 3 this effect was mediated by biased EU membership perceptions. The role of defensive versus secure forms of in-group identification in shaping support for EU membership is discussed. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion