The role of vocational identity development and motivational beliefs in undergraduates’ student engagement

Wong, Zi Yang; Kaur, Divjyot

doi:10.1080/09515070.2017.1314249

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“…Ahmed investigated the effects of CDMSE on employees' career commitment and found that higher CDMSE indicates a higher level of career commitment [25]. It was also found that career exploration was positively related to career commitment [26].…”

Section: Career Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For high school students, engaging in career exploration would bring up the sustainability of career development [36]. According to some past studies [26,37,38], it is expected that career exploration behaviors positively predict a better sense of CDMSE. In addition, the higher the level of career exploration, the lower the level of career indecision [39].…”

Section: Career Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

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Career commitment refers to individuals’ dedication to their career; in the field of vocational psychology, career commitment is considered a vital factor for promoting a sustainable career. The current study examined a mediation model of career concern related to career commitment with career exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy (CDMSE) as two mediators. The participants were 1105 high school students (males = 594, females = 511) recruited from three main cities in Jiangsu Province, China. Results indicated that the hypotheses were all confirmed: the direct effect of career concern on career commitment was significant (β = 0.598, p < 0.001); the indirect effect of career concern on career commitment through career exploration and CDMSE was also significant (β = 0.255, p < 0.001); and career exploration and CDMSE mediated the relation from career concern to career commitment. Finally, the authors discussed the implications of the findings which could be applied to improve a high school student’s career commitment and the sustainability of career development. The limitations of the study and the future research needed to complement the current work are also discussed.

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Section: Career Commitmentmentioning

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Section: Career Explorationmentioning

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Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

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“…Also, Crocetti and colleagues (e.g., Crocetti, Rubini, Luyckx, & Meeus, 2008; Crocetti, Rubini, & Meeus, 2008) included reconsideration of commitment as a third dimension alongside commitment and exploration, which added a searching moratorium status (high commitment, exploration, and reconsideration). Both Marcia’s original conceptualization of identity statuses and the additions by later researchers continue to be used in current studies of identity development (e.g., Kaddoura & Sarouphim, 2019; Sznitman et al, 2019; Wong & Kaur, 2018).…”

Section: Vocational Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, many adolescents move from diffused vocational identity statuses to achieved and moratorium as they age and get closer to high school graduation (Skorikov & Vondracek, 1998). In college students, advanced vocational identity statuses (e.g., achieved, moratorium) have been consistently related to positive personal and professional outcomes in samples from around the world (e.g., Cox et al, 2016; Green, 2020; Hirschi & Hermann, 2012; Rhee et al, 2016; Wong & Kaur, 2018; Zhang et al, 2019). For instance, higher combined levels of commitment and exploration (representing an achieved status) was significantly and positively related to psychological well-being, satisfaction with life, general self-efficacy, and positive affect, as well as significantly and negatively related to negative affect, in Pakistani college students (Green, 2020).…”

Section: Vocational Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factor Structure of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) in University, Liberal Arts, and Community College Students

Weigold

Gregor

et al. 2020

Journal of Career Assessment

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The Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) measures vocational identity development in adolescents and emerging adults. Although the initial six-factor structure has been confirmed, there have not yet been studies assessing other plausible factor structures. Additionally, the VISA has not previously been examined in some major types of institutions of higher education in the United States. The current study assessed five potential factor structures for the VISA in three college student samples: 857 from a large public university, 196 from a small, private, minority-majority liberal arts college, and 320 from a community college. The six-factor structure was the best-fitting model of the ones examined and showed evidence of multigroup invariance up to the strict level. There were notable latent mean differences across samples, as well as frequency differences for vocational identity statuses. These findings have implications for the appropriate modeling of the VISA and its use within diverse college student samples.

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“…For example, Lopez (1994) found that exploration and commitment in occupation scores significantly predicted adolescents' academic grades. Similarly, a study on personal identity formation also found that exploration and commitment in occupation predicted high academic achievement (Wong & Kaur, 2017). However, it is also plausible that academic achievement leads to high levels of future occupational planning, especially in China.…”

Section: Future Planning and Academic Achievementmentioning

confidence: 95%

Longitudinal relations between future planning and adolescents’ academic achievement in China

Zhao

Jin-ling

et al. 2019

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Planning for the future is important for adolescents' development and academic adaptation. Most prior research has focused primarily on the effects of future planning on adolescents' academic achievement, and there is a dearth of literature examining the effects of adolescents' academic achievement on their future planning. The current study examined the longitudinal reciprocal relations between adolescents' future planning and academic achievement in China. Methods: The study sample consisted of 775 Chinese junior high school students (391 boys, 384 girls; M age = 13.38 years, SD = 0.89). Future planning and academic achievement were measured at three time points that were equally spaced by a 6-month lag. Path analyses with crosslagged effects were used to examine the longitudinal reciprocal relations between adolescents' future planning and academic achievement. Results: The associations between future educational planning and academic achievement were reciprocal. Future occupational commitment predicted adolescents' academic achievement, and academic achievement predicted adolescents' affects concerning future occupation. However, there was no significant association between future occupational exploration and academic achievement. Moreover, these patterns of longitudinal relations applied equally to boys and girls, and younger and older adolescents. Conclusions: The reciprocal relations between future planning processes and academic achievement differed across domains (e.g., educational and occupational domains). These findings suggest that future planning may be a protective factor for improving adolescents' academic achievement, and high academic achievement may also be beneficial for Chinese adolescents' future planning.

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The role of vocational identity development and motivational beliefs in undergraduates’ student engagement

Cited by 22 publications

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Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

Making a Commitment to Your Future: Investigating the Effect of Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Career Concern and Career Commitment

Factor Structure of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) in University, Liberal Arts, and Community College Students

Longitudinal relations between future planning and adolescents’ academic achievement in China

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