Editorial Board
Publication date: June 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 112Author(s): (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social cognitive career theory at 25: Empirical status of the interest, choice, and performance models
Publication date: Available online 13 June 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Robert W. Lent, Steven D. BrownAbstractSocial cognitive career theory (SCCT) consists of five interrelated models. Its original models focus on the determinants of educational and occupational interest, choice, and performance (including persistence) (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). A fourth model is aimed at satisfaction and other aspects of well-being in academic and career-related settings (Lent & Brown, 2006a, 2008), and the fifth model highlights processes whereby people manage common developmental tasks and uncommon challen...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Desperately seeking sustainable careers: Redesigning professional jobs for the collaborative crafting of reduced-load work
This study, therefore, focuses on the implementation of sustainable RL work and sheds light on key issues under-examined in prior studies: 1) the job redesign tactics that supervising managers implement to reduce workloads, and 2) shared responsibilities at the job and organizational levels. Drawing on the literature on sustainable careers, work redesign, and job crafting, we analyze 86 qualitative interviews with managers who experimented with RL work, HR experts, and executives in 20 organizations that were early adopters of RL work. We identify differentiating and integrating work redesign tactics that either reduced or...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Examining the role of friendship for employee well-being
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Lydia Craig, Lauren KuykendallAbstractSustaining high-quality experiences across multiple life roles is essential for well-being. While this has long been acknowledged in the work-nonwork literature, research to date has focused primarily on experiences in work and family roles. Responding to calls to better understand how roles beyond work and family impact employee well-being, we seek to highlight the role of supportive friendships. Drawing on Social Support Resources Theory, we suggest that supportive friendships influence ge...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An exploration of career sustainability in and after professional sport
Publication date: Available online 10 June 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Julia Richardson, Stephen McKennaAbstractDrawing on an international qualitative study of former professional athletes, this paper examines career sustainability in and after a career in professional sport. It examines the individual, contextual and temporal dimensions of career sustainability and interprets the findings through the Job-Demands-Resources Model, identifying the physical and psychological demands and resources of sporting careers. It demonstrates that some demands can simultaneously present as resources and introd...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Empowerment through self-improvement skills: The role of learning goals and personal growth initiative
This study contributes to the literature by clarifying the mechanism underlying how personal factors affect psychological empowerment after controlling for the effect of job characteristics. (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The positive spillover and crossover of paternity leave use: A dyadic longitudinal analysis
In this study, we estimate the effect of Korean fathers' paternity leave use on mothers' family relationship satisfaction using dyadic longitudinal data. Applying a spillover-crossover theoretical framework, we predict that fathers who use paternity leave (T1) experience a positive spillover manifested in increased life satisfaction (T2) and that this process will be mediated by an increase in their job satisfaction. In turn, this will “crossover” to positively affect mothers' family relationship satisfaction (T3). We further propose that gender role agreement will moderate this relationship. Using nationally represent...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - June 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decent work in South Korea: Context, conceptualization, and assessment
Publication date: Available online 29 May 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): J. Sophia Nam, Shin Ye KimAbstractThis mixed methods study investigated how decent work is conceptualized and understood in South Korea by surveying 320 Korean working adults. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, qualitative and quantitative parts of the study were conducted concurrently. Emic conceptualizations of decent work were qualitatively explored, and compared with the quantitative findings from administrating the Korean-translated version of Duffy et al.'s (2017) Decent Work Scale. Internal consistency estim...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Constructing alignment for sustainable careers: Insights from the career narratives of management consultants
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Katharina Chudzikowski, Stefanie Gustafsson, Svenja TamsAbstractWhile prior literature identifies a person's alignment of their career with the interests of their employing organization as a source of career sustainability, we still know little about how individuals construe such alignment. Our study contributes to understanding of the sustainable career framework by conceptualizing individual career alignment as a narrative accomplishment. Building on an interview study of 34 consultants from a large management consulting firm, ...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trajectories of insecurity: Young adults' employment entry, health and well-being
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Katharina Klug, Sonja Drobnič, Hilke BrockmannAbstractYoung adults in the transition from education to employment are vulnerable to employment insecurity. We explore trajectories of employment insecurity over six years after leaving education, and investigate their associations with sociodemographic predictors, self-reported health and life satisfaction. Based on a sample of 2752 education leavers from a representative longitudinal dataset in Germany, we identify five distinct trajectories via latent class growth analysis: (1) ...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Shifts and variability in daily interpersonal justice are associated with psychological detachment and affect at home
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Yi-Ren Wang, Michael T. Ford, Yanxia Wang, Jiafei JinAbstractTo understand the implications of the dynamic nature of daily interpersonal justice, we examined the relationship between daily shifts and variability in interpersonal justice over time and recovery experiences at home. A ten-day daily diary study of 58 workers with 422 observations was conducted. Results from multi-level modeling revealed that daily shifts in interpersonal justice at the within-person level, operationalized as residual changes across consecutive work d...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Careers in construction: An examination of the career narratives of young professionals and their emerging career self-concepts
This study explores the experiences of young professionals as they move through different career paths and narrate their careers. Drawing primarily from semi-structured in-depth interviews with 40 young professionals with at least three years of professional employment post-graduation from the same program of study as well as data obtained from the subjects' LinkedIn profiles, our findings suggest that young professionals engage in a dynamic process of constructing their career narratives with often complex emerging career self-concepts. While prior research suggests that people move toward an increasingly stable and cohes...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding the consequences of newcomer proactive behaviors: The moderating contextual role of servant leadership
We examined the degree to which servant leadership moderated the proposed relationships. Results revealed that servant leadership generally benefited employee socialization outcomes, especially for employees low in proactive behavior. But at low levels of perceived servant leadership, followers were able to compensate for this leadership deficiency the more they engaged in proactive behaviors. Although proactive behaviors did not surpass servant leadership in relationships with job satisfaction, P-J, and PO fit, follower proactive behaviors had the strongest relationships to these outcomes under conditions of low servant l...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Linking decent work with physical and mental health: A psychology of working perspective
Publication date: Available online 6 May 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Ryan D. Duffy, Haram J. Kim, Nicholas P. Gensmer, Trisha L. Raque-Bogdan, Richard P. Douglass, Jessica W. England, Aysenur Buyukgoze-KavasAbstractDrawing from a psychology of working perspective, the current study examined links between decent work and health among a sample (N = 497) of employed adults with an annual household income under $50,000. A theory driven mediation model was tested positioning decent work as a predictor of mental and physical health via need satisfaction at work. Decent work strongly predicted surviva...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - May 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
We do not exist in an affective vacuum! Cross-level effects of trait affect and group affective properties on individual performance
Publication date: Available online 18 April 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Gillian Yeo, Daniela Andrei, Sarah Hall, Robert L. Tang, Simon Lloyd D. RestubogAbstractThis research aimed to enhance understanding of how relationships among trait affect and individual performance are influenced by group affective properties. To do this, we integrated trait affect and affective diversity theories within a self-regulatory framework to generate predictions regarding the moderating effect of group trait affect and group affective diversity on the relationship between trait affect and individual performance. Hyp...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - April 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
