Vocational identity as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and life and job satisfaction

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Vocational identity as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and life and job satisfaction. / Hirschi, Andreas.
in: Applied Psychology, Jahrgang 60, Nr. 4, 10.2011, S. 622-644.

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title = "Vocational identity as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and life and job satisfaction",
abstract = "This study investigated whether vocational identity achievement mediates the relation between basic personality dispositions (i.e. core self-evaluations) and career and well-being outcomes in terms of job and life satisfaction. Two studies with Swiss adolescents were conducted. Study 1 (N= 310) investigated students in eighth grade, prior to making the transition to vocational education and training (VET); it showed that vocational identity related positively to life satisfaction but that this relationship disappeared once core self-evaluations were controlled. Study 2 (N= 150) investigated students in their second year of VET; it showed that job satisfaction was unrelated to identity and self-evaluations. However, identity fully mediated the relation between self-evaluations and life satisfaction.",
keywords = "Management studies",
author = "Andreas Hirschi",
year = "2011",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1111/j.1464-0597.2011.00450.x",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
pages = "622--644",
journal = "Applied Psychology",
issn = "0269-994X",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.",
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AB - This study investigated whether vocational identity achievement mediates the relation between basic personality dispositions (i.e. core self-evaluations) and career and well-being outcomes in terms of job and life satisfaction. Two studies with Swiss adolescents were conducted. Study 1 (N= 310) investigated students in eighth grade, prior to making the transition to vocational education and training (VET); it showed that vocational identity related positively to life satisfaction but that this relationship disappeared once core self-evaluations were controlled. Study 2 (N= 150) investigated students in their second year of VET; it showed that job satisfaction was unrelated to identity and self-evaluations. However, identity fully mediated the relation between self-evaluations and life satisfaction.

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