Anger, anxiety, depression, and negative affect: Convergent or divergent?
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Thomas W.H. Ng, Kelly L. Sorensen, Ying Zhang, Frederick H.K. YimAbstractAnger, anxiety, depression, and negative affect have been examined frequently as indicators of employees' subjective well-being. Some researchers have adopted a convergence perspective, assuming these four variables as interchangeable. Others use a divergence perspective, treating each of the four as a distinct emotion. The goal of this study was to directly compare anger, anxiety, depression, and negative affect and examine whether the nomological netwo...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Motivated by future and challenges: A cross-cultural study on adolescents' investment in learning and career planning
Publication date: Available online 5 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Lucija Andre, Thea T.D. Peetsma, Annelies E.M. van Vianen, Joost Jansen in de Wal, Danijela S. Petrović, Tomislav BunjevacAbstractThis three-wave cross-cultural study tested a cross-cultural model that related adolescents' Regulatory Focus (RF) and Future Time Perspective on School and Professional Career (FTP) to their educational and career behaviors, and explored whether these relationships are equivalent across countries. Specifically, it addressed the challenging question whether adolescents' motivational orientations d...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The passage of time in work-family research: Toward a more dynamic perspective
Publication date: Available online 1 December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Tammy D. Allen, Kimberly A. French, Michael T. Braun, Keaton FletcherAbstractWe review the design features of work-family/nonwork conflict research that incorporates the passage of time (i.e., lagged, longitudinal, experience sampling). Findings indicate that although the number of studies that incorporate time in their design has increased in recent years, time-based design features such as the length of time between data collections and the number of waves of data collected are often arbitrarily selected. We discuss implica...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Career doubt in a dual-domain model of coping and progress for academic and career goals
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Melodie Chamandy, Patrick GaudreauAbstractUniversity students set career goals during their academic journey in order to facilitate their transition to the labor market. Career goals can nonetheless be accompanied by doubt, even among the most determined students. Little is known, however, about the nomological network of career doubt. Using a dual-domain approach, the purpose of the present study was to test a model that integrated career doubt with the coping and progress made by university students (N = 234) during th...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The influence of work on personality trait development: The demands-affordances TrAnsactional (DATA) model, an integrative review, and research agenda
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Stephen A. Woods, Bart Wille, Chia-huei Wu, Filip Lievens, Filip De FruytAbstractAlthough personality is typically conceptualized in industrial, organizational, and vocational psychology as enduring and stable, an increasing volume of research now shows that personality changes throughout the lifespan, with work being a potentially important influence of trait development. This paper reviews and integrates the emergent literature in this area, and in doing so proposes a new Demands-Affordances TrAnsactional (DATA) model of p...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Hangover follows extroverts: Extraversion as a moderator in the curvilinear relationship between newcomers' organizational tenure and job satisfaction
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 110, Part AAuthor(s): Jooyeon Son, Chiho OkAbstractThe present study examines the nonlinear relationship between organizational tenure of and job satisfaction among new employees (i.e., newcomers). In particular, a newcomer's job satisfaction is described as a U-shaped curve that decreases after joining but increases after some time. Moreover, it predicts that this temporal change in job satisfaction differs depending on a newcomer's extraversion. Analyzing five-wave unbalanced panel data for 1553 individuals and 5770 observations in South Korea,...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does socioeconomic status shape young people's goal revision processes in the face of negative career feedback?
Publication date: Available online 27 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Shi Hu, Peter A. Creed, Michelle HoodAbstractBased on social cognitive career theory and general self-regulation theories, we examined the relationships between negative career feedback (on goal suitability and goal progress) and goal revision intentions (for goal disengagement and lowering career goals), and tested the mediating role of occupational self-efficacy and the moderating role of socioeconomic status (both objective and subjective SES). Using a sample of 244 college students (73% female; Mage = 19.28 years),...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When is helping behavior unhelpful? A conceptual analysis and research agenda
Publication date: Available online 27 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Reeshad S. Dalal, Zitong ShengAbstractPopular parlance, several organizational literatures (e.g., feedback, mentoring, and organizational citizenship behavior), and research literatures in other academic disciplines (e.g., social psychology, judgment and decision-making) have recognized that help can sometimes be unhelpful. The current paper organizes and extends the extant research in this area using a momentary, relational, person-person complementary fit (i.e., need-fulfillment) conceptual model that it applies to: (1) ta...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The performance costs of illegitimate tasks: The role of job identity and flexible role orientation
Publication date: Available online 28 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Jie Ma, Yisheng PengAbstractThe present study examined whether illegitimate tasks were negatively related to employee task performance and proactive work behaviors via employee job identity. Furthermore, this study investigated if employee flexible role orientation would moderate the illegitimate task – job identity relationship as well as the indirect effects of illegitimate tasks on task performance and proactive work behavior via job identity. Multi-sourced data (i.e., self-and supervisor-rating) were collected from a g...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining gender-typed educational choice in adolescence: The role of social identity, self-concept, goals, grades, and interests
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Samantha Sinclair, Artur Nilsson, Elmedina CederskärAbstractIn most industrialized countries, there are substantial gender differences in field of study, resulting in gender segregated labor markets. The present research (N = 457, M age = 14.98) investigated a diverse range of predictors of Swedish adolescents' choice of preparatory (STEM; humanistic) and terminal (e.g., electrician; health care) programs. The results revealed that social identity related variables (same-gender friendship networks, belonging, and ad...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Career plateau: A review of 40 years of research
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Wei-Ning Yang, Karen Niven, Sheena JohnsonAbstractA considerable amount of research has been published on career plateau since its first appearance in the careers literature in the 1970s. There is therefore a need to summarise what is known about the field in its entirety and what remains unanswered. This paper presents a review of career plateau research published between 1977 and 2017 and includes 72 empirical sources. Focusing on hierarchical and job content plateau, the review adopts a social exchange perspective in expl...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decent work in Switzerland: Context, conceptualization, and assessment
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Jonas Masdonati, Marc Schreiber, Jenny Marcionetti, Jérôme RossierAbstractThe purpose of this study was to adapt the Decent Work Scale (DWS; Duffy et al., 2017) and extend the research on the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016) within the Swiss context. The results indicated that the Swiss French, German, and Italian versions of the DWS are valid measurements. We then tested PWT predictors and outcomes of decent work. Work volition fully mediated the negative link between unemployment...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Extracurricular activities and career indecision: A look at the mediating role of vocational exploration
This study examined whether vocational exploration mediated the association between participation in extracurricular activities and career indecision among high school students. A total of 312 students were surveyed over three waves of data collection (Secondary 3 to Secondary 5). Participation in extracurricular activities (number and types), vocational exploration (self and environment), and career indecision (undecidedness, self-unclarity, and career choice unimportance) were self-reported. Results revealed that participation in a higher number of extracurricular activities predicted an increase in vocational exploratio...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 109Author(s): (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Antecedents of protean and boundaryless career orientations: The role of core self-evaluations, perceived employability and social capital
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2018Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Ricardo Rodrigues, Christina L. Butler, David GuestAbstractResearch on protean and boundaryless career orientations has explored their consequences for individuals and organizations while largely ignoring their key antecedents. Our paper address this omission by exploring three potential antecedents of contemporary careers - core self-evaluations (CSEs), social capital and perceived employability. Findings from a longitudinal study of university students transitioning into the labour market support the role of these construct...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
