Abstract
This study aimed at investigating the integrative cross-cultural perspective of negative career thoughts by comparing college students’ data from Pakistan and Korea. Data obtained from 200 Pakistani college students were compared to the data obtained from 200 Korean college students. Results show a significantly higher score on negative career thoughts when compared to Korean students. Findings indicate cross-cultural differences in negative career thoughts reflective of context-based differences in policy and career guidance systems. Findings provide support to Systems Theory Framework. However, the similarities in the construct manifestation provide a theoretical basis for career guidance in the collectivist and Asian contexts. Findings suggest the importance of comparative data, indigenization of assessment tool to assess negative career thoughts, and further exploration of negative career thoughts while considering cultural dimensions.
Highlights
Social media use which is reaching its peak among adults of the developed world for participation in digital political spheres (Correa et al, 2010) has become the part and parcel of the life of urban citizens of developing world for political engagement (Poushter et al, 2018), and this new political behavior has accelerated the process of political communication engaging participants in commenting and sharing of political content (Cherubini and Nielsen, 2016)
The results demonstrated that the political engagement of individuals through social media is completely mediating the relationship between social media use and political party-based polarization, leadership-based polarization, and issue-based polarization
Social media is serving as the platform for the dissemination of political information
Summary
Social media use which is reaching its peak among adults of the developed world for participation in digital political spheres (Correa et al, 2010) has become the part and parcel of the life of urban citizens of developing world for political engagement (Poushter et al, 2018), and this new political behavior has accelerated the process of political communication engaging participants in commenting and sharing of political content (Cherubini and Nielsen, 2016). In the 2018 elections of Pakistan, a tremendous surge was found in the use of social media due to its polyvocality; all leading political parties, renowned and active candidates, political workers, and even the supporters exploited this ubiquitous source of communication, Facebook and Twitter, to achieve their goals. They propagated the agendas and manifesto of their parties and lead campaigns against the opponents by criticizing their political and personal offenses (Jarral, 2018). This study has attempted to explain the relationship between social media use and political polarization by examining adults’ political engagement on Facebook and Twitter
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