Kunath, Katharina (2024) Protecting Your Calling: Career Goal Downward Revision Upon Receiving Negative Career Feedback, Mediated by Career Distress. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Career goals represent ways towards which we wish to develop in our professional lives. When our progress on these goals is criticized, self-regulatory processes can come into play to reduce the discrepancy between our goals and the feedback. In an attempt to maintain career identity, psychological mechanisms such as career calling may exhibit protective properties. Based on identity control theory, this study explores the relationship between negative career feedback on goal progress and career goal downward revision and investigates the mediating role of career distress and the moderating role of career calling. Our sample consisted of 182 young professionals (Mage = 23.52) recruited via convenience sampling. We found that negative career feedback significantly predicted career goal downward revision, and career distress partially mediated that relationship. Career calling did not moderate the relationship between career distress and career goal downward revision. Our findings underline the importance of self-regulatory processes in the face of negative career feedback in young adults and suggest future research to explore a possible age comparison relating to the effects of career calling, as well as investigating further factors that might serve as protective mechanisms. Keywords: negative career feedback, career goal downward revision, career distress, career calling
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Heihal, T.I. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2024 07:32 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2024 04:10 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4112 |
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