Decent work in Portugal: Context, conceptualization, and assessment
Publication date: Available online 3 February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Joaquim A. Ferreira, Richard F. Haase, Eduardo R. Santos, José A. Rabaça, Lara Figueiredo, Hida G. Hemami, Lídia M. AlmeidaAbstractDecent work is an important contemporary theme in the career field which requires strong research regarding its social impact in worker's lives. The goal of the current study is to examine the validity and reliability of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) and extend our understanding of the construct among 345 working adults in Portugal. In addition to the validated translation of the Portuguese versi...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The beauty premium: The role of organizational sponsorship in the relationship between physical attractiveness and early career salaries
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Karyn Dossinger, Connie R. Wanberg, Yongjun Choi, Lisa M. LeslieAbstractThe positive relationship between physical attractiveness and earnings is well-established, but explanations for why this effect exists are still in a nascent state. By integrating status characteristics theory with sponsored-mobility perspectives on career success, we propose that attractive individuals receive more organizational sponsorship in the form of higher career exposure and visibility and higher access to organizational resources, mediating the...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - February 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decent work in Turkey: Context, conceptualization, and assessment
Publication date: Available online 21 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Aysenur Buyukgoze-Kavas, Kelsey L. AutinAbstractThe aim of the present article is to provide explore decent work in the Turkish cultural context. To achieve this, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were undertaken. Specifically, we sought to validate a Turkish version of the Decent Work Scale (Duffy et al., 2017) among a diverse group of Turkish working adults (N = 453). Additionally, we used an open-ended question to gather qualitative data in order to gain a deeper understanding of how decent work is con...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Person-vocation fit across the world of work: Evaluating the generalizability of the circular model of vocational interests and social cognitive career theory across 74 countries
Publication date: Available online 19 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Alexander Glosenberg, Terence J.G. Tracey, Tara S. Behrend, David L. Blustein, Lori L. FosterAbstractThe fit of a person with a vocation, or person-vocation (P-V) fit, is important for workers and is a central concept in vocational psychology. Multiple theories in vocational psychology undergird an understanding of P-V fit, including the circular model of vocational interests and social cognitive career theory (SCCT). However, it is unclear whether predictions based upon these theories are generalizable across a range of soci...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
(Dys)functional attachments?: How community embeddedness impacts workers during and after long-term unemployment
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Timothy P. Munyon, Laura T. Madden, Timothy M. Madden, Eran Vigoda-GadotAbstractLong-term unemployed workers are individuals who have been unemployed continuously for six or more months. Evidence shows that this form of unemployment is particularly deleterious, necessitating inquiry into factors that influence the duration of unemployment for these workers and their readjustment to work. Embeddedness theory sheds new light on this problem by predicting that community attachments exert a powerful influence on the choices and m...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding behavioral job search self-efficacy through the social cognitive lens: A meta-analytic review
This study used a meta-analysis to gain a clearer understanding of the relationships between behavioral job search self-efficacy (JSSE) and its relevant variables. Study variables were selected based on the career self-management model of the social cognitive career theory, which comprehensively includes sources and outcomes of JSSE. In addition, moderators that reflect various sample characteristics and the studies' research designs were included to clarify the hitherto inconsistent results between JSSE and related variables. Based on the analysis on 80 independent samples from 74 articles, results showed that supports an...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evaluation of the dimensions of the spherical model of vocational interests in the long and short version of the Personal Globe Inventory
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Julian M. Etzel, Gabriel NagyAbstractThe present study examined three different sources of evidence for the validity of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI; Tracey, 2002) with regard to its ability to assess the dimensions underlying the spherical model of vocational interests: People-Things, Ideas-Data, and Prestige. Specifically, we analyzed 1) evidence based on the internal structure of the eight basic interest scales, 2) convergent evidence of the PGI dimensions across different item types, and 3) evidence based on relation...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The process of reinventing a job: A meta–synthesis of qualitative job crafting research
Publication date: Available online 6 January 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Alessandra Lazazzara, Maria Tims, Davide de GennaroAbstractTwo different research streams are encountered in the job crafting literature. The first, defined as task, cognitive, and relational job crafting by Wrzesniewski and Dutton (2001), has predominantly applied qualitative research designs to explore how employees craft their jobs to better align them with their preferences, abilities, and motivations to enhance work meaning and identity. The second stream, characterized by crafting job demands and job resources (Tims & Ba...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - January 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Daily job crafting and momentary work engagement: A self-determination and self-regulation perspective
Publication date: Available online 17 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Arnold B. Bakker, Wido G.M. OerlemansAbstractThe present study investigates the possible mechanisms involved in the link between daily job crafting and daily work engagement. Using self-determination theory, we hypothesize that daily job crafting is positively related to daily work engagement through momentary need satisfaction and momentary engagement. Additionally, using self-regulation theory, we predict that daily job crafting is negatively related to daily work engagement, through momentary energy depletion and (reduced...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The other side of the same coin – How communal beliefs about entrepreneurship influence attitudes toward entrepreneurship
Publication date: Available online 17 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Eva Alexandra Schmitz, Rodrigo Isidor, Holger Steinmetz, Marius Claus Wehner, Rüdiger KabstAbstractDrawing on the information processing perspective, this paper investigates how young adults' attitudes toward entrepreneurship are shaped by their beliefs about the role and activities of entrepreneurs. Our first study (N = 129) reveals that young adults hold a biased set of beliefs. They believe that entrepreneurship affords agentic aspects (e.g., achievement, power, excitement), but significantly less believe in communal...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assessing career preference cohesiveness
Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Aviva Shimoni, Tony Gutentag, Itamar GatiAbstractThe goal of the present research was to assess individuals' aspect-based career preference cohesiveness. Cohesive preferences are well-defined and focused, and high preference cohesiveness facilitates career decision-making. Career aspects are factors individuals consider during career decision making, such as what major to choose (e.g., length of courses or programs, using analytical skills), what college to attend (e.g., prestige, scholarships), and what job to choose after ...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Who earns more? Explicit traits, implicit motives and income growth trajectories
Publication date: Available online 13 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Catherine Apers, Jonas W.B. Lang, Eva DerousAbstractBuilding on career self-management perspectives, this study extends the literature on the link between personality and income as an indicator of objective career success by tracking income over time and by studying not only explicit but also implicit personality constructs, separately and integrated. Hypotheses on effects of explicit (Big Five traits) and implicit (Big Three motives of affiliation, power, and achievement) personality on income and income growth trajectories...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Empirical developments in career construction theory
Publication date: Available online 12 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Cort W. Rudolph, Hannes Zacher, Andreas HirschiAbstractCareer construction theory is a grand theory of career development. The goal of this special issue on empirical developments in career construction theory was to showcase research that addresses major unanswered questions regarding this theory, including the role of context and development over time, as well as the applicability of the theory in specific samples. Furthermore, we sought advanced research that addresses the dimensionality, processes, and outcomes of career...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Role modeling as a socialization mechanism in the transmission of career adaptability across generations
Publication date: Available online 10 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Patrick Raymund James M. Garcia, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Anna Carmella Ocampo, Lu Wang, Robert L. TangAbstractDrawing from Career Construction Theory (Savickas, 2013) and Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986), we examine role modeling as a socialization mechanism that facilitates the transmission of career adaptability across generations. The proposed serial mediation model was tested using 187 grandparent-parent-grandchild triads. Results showed that role modeling mediated the relationships between grandparents', parents...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attributions of blame for customer mistreatment: Implications for employees' service performance and customers' negative word of mouth
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Patrick Raymund James M. Garcia, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Vinh Nhat Lu, Rajiv K. Amarnani, Lu Wang, Alessandra CapezioAbstractIntegrating conservation of resources and attribution theories, this study investigates the extent to which perceived customer mistreatment increases customers' negative word of mouth by reducing service workers' subsequent customer-directed in-role performance and customer-directed organizational citizenship behaviors. We also hypothesized that customer-directed blame attributions would moderate these...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
