Se planteó la hipótesis, en base a la teoría de la expectativa-valencia, de que el sentimiento negativo subsiguiente al fracaso en conseguir un empleo sería mayor entre aquellos individuos que estaban fuertemente motivados a buscar empleo que entre los que lo estaban menos. La hipótesis se puso a prueba por medio de la administración de un cuestionario a una muestra de desempleados. Los resultados mostraron que los sujetos que indicaron en sus puntuaciones estar altamente motivados para conseguir un empleo, daban también puntuaciones más altas en sentimientos depresivos. Los sujetos con mayores niveles de sentimiento depresivo eran menos propensos a culparse a sí mismos por su desempleo y más propensos a culpar a las dificultades externas. Asimismo dieron mayores puntuaciones de la valencia o atractivo percibido del trabajo. Se discuten estos y otros resultados a la luz de la Teoría de la depresión de Beck y otros estudios recientes.
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