Nieminen, Mirjam Esteriina (2024) Negative Career Feedback Effects on Career Goal Engagement: Exploring Goal Discrepancy and Professional Skills and Abilities Growth Mindset Dynamics. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Negative career feedback from others guides individuals to adjust and redirect their efforts toward current career goals. Setbacks, such as negative feedback, often promote goal discrepancies, which represent the perceived distance between one’s current progress and goals, resulting in reduced goal engagement. People’s mindsets appear to play a significant role in how individuals respond to setbacks like negative feedback; while some are spurred into action by critical feedback, others may feel demotivated or discouraged. This study employed a newly developed concept, professional skills and abilities (PSA) growth mindset, to examine its moderating influence between perceived career goal discrepancy and subsequent career goal engagement. A sample of young adults (n = 100) actively working towards their career goals (i.e., studying, employed, or both) completed an online survey. Consistent with our hypotheses, the results indicated that higher levels of negative career feedback were linked to lower career goal engagement, and career goal discrepancy mediated this relationship, suggesting that higher negative feedback increases discrepancies and subsequently lowers goal engagement. Contrary to our overall model hypothesis, PSA growth mindset did not significantly moderate the mediation between career goal discrepancy and career goal engagement. The present study contributes to the growing body of research on career development and suggests potential intervention strategies by elucidating the mechanisms through which negative career feedback influences career goal engagement. Keywords: Negative Feedback, Goal Engagement, Goal Discrepancy, Professional Skills and Abilities Mindset, Career, Young Adults
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Heihal, T.I. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 07 May 2024 13:50 |
| Last Modified: | 07 May 2024 13:50 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3337 |
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