Pursuing Money and Power, Prosocial Contributions, or Personal Growth: Measurement and Nomological Net of Different Career Strivings

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Career Development Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI:10.1177/08948453231182928

A. Hirschi, Dandan Pang

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Abstract

There is considerable agreement that individuals need an “inner compass” to manage their careers as self-directed and values-driven. However, how different career strivings (i.e., long-term, values-related career goals) affect career development remains largely unaddressed. To tackle this issue, we conducted a study to develop and validate new scales to assess self-enhancement, self-transcendence, and personal growth career strivings, representing key self-focused and other-focused extrinsic and intrinsic career goals. The validation of the scales among 389 U.S. and 490 German workers confirmed that career strivings are differentially related to existing measures of intrinsic and extrinsic career goals, work values, and motivational work strivings. Moreover, we confirmed with a time-lagged study among 354 German workers that career strivings (especially personal growth strivings) relate positively to career commitment, career satisfaction, and life meaningfulness. The studies support the utility of examining different career strivings as critical motivational factors in self-directed career management in future research.

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追求金钱和权力，亲社会贡献，还是个人成长:不同职业奋斗的测量和规律网

人们普遍认为，个人需要一个“内心指南针”，以自我导向和价值观驱动的方式管理自己的职业生涯。然而，不同的职业努力(即长期的、与价值观相关的职业目标)如何影响职业发展，在很大程度上仍未得到解决。为了解决这一问题，我们进行了一项研究，以开发和验证新的量表来评估自我提升、自我超越和个人成长的职业努力，代表了主要的自我关注和他人关注的外在和内在职业目标。通过对389名美国员工和490名德国员工的验证，证实了职业奋斗与现有的内在和外在职业目标、工作价值观和动机性工作奋斗的不同相关。此外，我们通过对354名德国工人的时间滞后研究证实，职业奋斗(尤其是个人成长奋斗)与职业承诺、职业满意度和生活意义呈正相关。这些研究支持在未来的研究中，将不同的职业努力作为自我导向职业管理的关键激励因素。

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Journal of Career Development PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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5.80

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6.90%

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期刊介绍： Journal of Career Development provides the professional, the public, and policymakers with the latest in career development theory, research and practice, focusing on the impact that theory and research have on practice. Among the topics covered are career education, adult career development, career development of special needs populations, career development and the family, and career and leisure. Research reports and discussion of theory are welcome, but practical applications must be presented.