Proactive Motivation And Engagement In Career Behaviors: Investigating Direct, Mediated, And Moderated Effects
affect; affect schedule panas; career; Career counseling; Career management; construct-validity; efficacy; engagement; exploration; goal attainment; happen; high-school-students; Motivation; negative; Proactivity; Psychology; self-concordance; things; vocational identity
Proactive career behaviors become increasingly important in today's career environment, but little is known about how and when motivational patterns affect individual differences. In a six-month longitudinal study among German university students (Study 1; N = 289) it was demonstrated that motivation in terms of "can do" (self-efficacy and context beliefs), "reason to" (autonomous career goals), and "energized to" (positive affect) significantly predicted career behaviors. Contrary to expectation, negative context beliefs had a positive effect when combined with other motivational states. Study 2 replicated and extended those results by investigating whether "can do" motivation mediates the effect of proactive personality and whether those effects are conditional upon the degree of career choice decidedness. We tested a moderated multiple mediation model with a unique sample of 134 German students, assessed three times, each interval being 6 weeks apart. The results showed that effects of proactivity were partially carried through higher self-efficacy beliefs but not context beliefs. Supporting a moderation model, indirect effects through self-efficacy beliefs were not present for students with very low decidedness. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hirschi A; Lee B; Porfeli E J; Vondracek F W
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2013
2013-08
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2013.02.003" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2013.02.003</a>
Child Vocational Development: A Review And Reconsideration
african american; career; career adaptability; career aspirations; career awareness; Career exploration; career theory; child development; child vocational development; children and work; developmental career; elementary-school-children; identity development; junior-high-school; life-course development; life-span development; longitudinal sample; maturity; nontraditional workers; occupational aspirations; Psychology; Psychology; sex-role expectations; twins reared apart; vocational expectations and aspirations; vocational interests
Childhood marks the dawn of human development. To organize, integrate, and advance knowledge about vocational development during this age period from a life-span perspective, we conducted a comprehensive review of the empirical vocational development literature that addresses early-to-late childhood. The review considers career exploration, career awareness, vocational expectations and aspirations, vocational interests, and career maturity/adaptability. By conducting the review, we sought to consolidate knowledge and identify avenues for further research concerned with vocational development in childhood and across the life span. Linking knowledge of child vocational development with what is known about adolescent and adult vocational development and conducting research that embeds vocational development within the fabric of a life-span developmental framework could move the field of vocational psychology from a disjointed perspective on career as studied in isolated age groups and toward an integrated life-span conceptualization. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hartung P J; Porfeli E J; Vondracek F W
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2005
2005-06
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2004.05.006" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2004.05.006</a>
Children's vocational development: A research rationale
adolescence; career development; exploration; identity development; internet; occupational aspirations; perspective; Psychology; states; web
Vocational development research mid interventions have focused primarily on adolescents and young adults. The lack of attention to career development antecedents in children has led to a serious neglect of this period of life when the foundation is laid for career choices and outcomes in later life. A harmful by-product is the frequent preclusion of gender-atypical occupational pathways by boys and especially by girls. To address this situation, the authors recommend identifying a core set of constructs that describe children's vocational development and developing sound instruments to measure them, leading to a longitudinal study ranging from childhood to early adulthood.
Porfeli E J; Hartung P J; Vondracek F W
Career Development Quarterly
2008
2008-09
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2008.tb00163.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/j.2161-0045.2008.tb00163.x</a>