Anticipatory Socialization Research Articles

Associations of Adolescents’ Vocational Anticipatory Socialization: Exploring the Roles of Favorite Television Characters, Gender, and Parent-Child Communication

ABSTRACT Three primary purposes guided the present study: to examine the role of adolescents’ favorite television character characteristics on adolescents’ wishful identification toward the characters’ job, to examine the role of television and family on adolescents’ vocational anticipatory socialization, and to explore whether the associations varied by gender. Data were collected from 330 adolescents. Intrinsic work values, easy-going work perceptions (as reported by the adolescents), and gender of adolescent girls’ favorite television characters were positively associated with wishful identification. The television characters’ easy-going work perceptions were positively associated with adolescent boys’ and girls’ own easy-going work aspirations. Finally, communication with parents about work moderated the association between parents’ and adolescent boys’ and girls’ easy-going work aspirations.

Can high school educators bridge the gap?: Message construction as a process of anticipatory socialization for marginalized students’ transition to higher education.

Can high school educators bridge the gap?: Message construction as a process of anticipatory socialization for marginalized students’ transition to higher education.

Determinants of Whistleblowing Intentions: The Role of Education in Building Personal Integrity

This study aims to find outwhetherthe independent variablesconsisting of relativism ethical orientation, moral intensity, organizational commitment, professional identity, anticipatory socialization, and locus of controlhavean effecton employee’s whistleblowing intention. In this research, integrity is peroxided on anticipatory socialization. The data used in this study was obtained from questionnaires distributed to 204 respondents of which 31% of them pursued higher education at the same institution. This research used quantitative methods with data quality tests and classical assumption tests. Theresults show that relativism ethics orientation, professional identity, and anticipatory socialization have a positive effect on whistleblowing intentions. Meanwhile, moral intensity and organizational commitment have no effect on whistleblowing intentions. Locus of Control has a negative effect on whistleblowing intentions. The results of this study are expected to contribute to providing a perspective on the importance of internalizing integrity in education and providing input to government agencies in supporting the enforcement of whistleblowing policies and disclosure of fraud effectively by understanding the factors that contribute positively to employee intentions to whistleblowing.

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The Social Integration Programs run by the Ministry of Justice play an important role in coping with growing immigration in Korea. All immigrants joining the Program use two kinds of textbooks: (1) Korean Language and Culture and (2) Understanding Korean Society. In December 2020, the newly revised textbooks were published; it is necessary to examine if they are assisting immigrants’ anticipatory socialization into Korean society.
 This study aims to analyze the two newly revised textbooks used for the social integration programs run by the Ministry of Justice and to suggest implications on how to further improve them. For this purpose, the content on Korean society and culture in the revised textbooks were analyzed. These are the major findings. First, Korean Language and Culture mostly deals with Korean society and culture while rarely touching on Korean politics, laws, history and geography. Second, both textbooks partly reflect the comparative view of culture. Third, the holistic view of culture can be found only in the second book (Understanding Korean Society), but not very often. Fourth, Understanding Korean Society covers more current issues and statistics than Korean Language and Culture while Korean Language and Culture deals with more useful items for daily lives and traditional Korean culture than the other. Fifth, considerable relevance when it comes to topics has been found between the two textbooks.
 In order to develop further improved textbooks on Korean society and culture for future immigrants, the developers of the textbooks should select more current and useful materials on Korean society and culture with holistic and comparative views of culture. In addition, it is necessary for the developers of each book to work in closer cooperation with one another.

“I Value Collaboration but Won’t Get Pushed Around”: Uncovering Tensions in Millennials’ Vocational Anticipatory Socialization

The present research aims to understand why there have been inconsistent reports about millennials’ workplace behaviors by exploring discourses rooted in their vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS). Drawing on focus group interviews with 74 matriculating millennials, four dialectical tensions emerged from their discussions around work: (1) prioritizing self- versus other-oriented values; (2) career progression as flexible versus rigid; (3) managing clear versus blurred relational boundaries; and (4) meaning of work based on self-sufficiency versus self-actualization. Authors discuss the implications of foregrounding tensions in theorizing VAS as processes of making sense of inconsistent messages about work and career, as well as practical considerations regarding millennials’ experience with VAS tensions.

Organizational Commitment As Moderating The Relationship Between Anticipatory Socialization And Whistleblowing Intention

This study aims to determine the effect of organizational commitment as moderating the relationship between anticipatory socialization and whistleblowing intention. The sample technique used was purposive sampling. The population were all 87 Government Internal Supervisory Apparatus (APIP) at the Inspectorate of Banten Province. Structural Equation Model using Partial Least Square statistical software was used to analyze the data. The result of this study indicates that anticipatory socialization partially has a positive significant relationship on the whistleblowing intention and commitment organization was able to moderate the relationship of anticipatory socialization and whistleblowing intention.

Mentoring Graduate Students in Music Education: A Mixed-Methods Phenomenological Study

Mentoring is a critical element in the well-being, socialization, and professional identity development of graduate students. Yet in music education, little is known about the graduate student mentoring experience from the mentors’ perspective. Therefore, the purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine music teacher educators’ perspectives on and experiences with graduate student mentoring. We used a concurrent nested approach to mixed-methods phenomenological research (QUAN + PHEN) with a survey of a national sample of music teacher educators ( N = 142) and a phenomenology built from a three-interview series with individuals ( n = 6) at various career stages. After analyzing each phase separately, we engaged in data integration and interpretation of study findings to reveal a description of current mentoring practices and beliefs. Key elements include relationship building, a multilayered community of practice, and intentional acts of anticipatory socialization that empower students as they transition to the role of colleague.

College Socialization Through Fiction: A Q Methodology Study on the Anticipatory Socialization of First-Generation Students

College Socialization Through Fiction: A Q Methodology Study on the Anticipatory Socialization of First-Generation Students

From the Bourgeoisie to the Life of an Artist: Crises of Succession and Anticipatory Socialization

How should we understand certain individuals’ orientation toward the unsettled, uncertain (although relatively prestigious) life of an artist? This article is based on biographical analyses of the life trajectories of actors and actresses from the economic fractions of the upper classes, and focuses in particular on family inheritance. The attraction to the artistic field makes sense in connection with artists’ rejection of a family inheritance perceived to be bourgeois or petty bourgeois, embodied in the ambitions or expectations of their parents. This rejection stems from two interconnected logics: on the one hand, a desire not to reproduce the social domination and male domination experienced within an artist’s family and place of origin; and on the other, an adherence to the life of an artist and its structuring beliefs (vocation, individuality, economic disinterest). Ultimately, the life trajectories of these artists show how social relations (here, primarily relations of class and sex) can intertwine to shape an aspiring artist’s hopes, even before they have formulated career plan or engaged in any artistic training—thus demonstrating a particular type of anticipatory socialization.

ANALYZING SIGNALS OF (IN)EQUITY AND POWER IN ENGINEERING COLLEGE INTERNSHIP ADVERTISEMENTS

Gendered and racialized barriers play a significant role in undergraduate students' interest and persistence in engineering. While sexist and racist environments have been widely investigated in engineering academic settings, the impediments to equity in work-related engineering socialization experiences are far less explored. Specific to undergraduate students' work settings, internships serve as anticipatory socialization experiences where students learn what it is like to work in certain fields. Yet, little is known about the cues that sponsoring companies provide to potential interns about organizational ideology and power. Drawing from 122 advertisements for college engineering internships, this study explored companies' language and linguistic tools in ads. Within a framework of signaling theory and feminist critical discourse analysis, we used document analysis to examine organizational statements of equal employment and diversity as well as (implicitly gendered and racialized) power structures signaled by linguistic tools (e.g., nominative personal pronouns). Findings reveal a lack of specificity in companies' explicit statements, suggesting that "diversity" language evades identifying concrete equity efforts. Further, results illustrate the complex nature of how companies used linguistic tools to promote their own diversity values and position interns' agency. Leveraging a feminist lens, we discuss how leaving inclusive practices and power structures unnamed may signal a performative commitment to equity. We conclude with implications for higher education researchers, practitioners in career services, and employers recruiting college interns.

Doubting the connection: millennials’ perceptions of the link between higher education and workplace readiness

PurposeWhile Millennials are the most educated generation to date, the unique contributions of higher education as a source of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) for organizational success remains unknown. Thus, this paper aims to establish a formative understanding from the student perspective of how faculty help ready the youngest of the Millennial generation for industry. This also allows for a comparison to their older counterparts.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via an online mixed-methods survey with nearly 400 Millennials (n = 353).FindingsTwo prominent themes emerged including the professor as a socialization agent, where Millennials report learning from faculty as they are “managers of the classroom.” Additionally, the data indicate that many Millennials doubt the strength of the connection between higher education and career socialization, though a smaller cohort reported using the university environment, and more specifically, their interactions with faculty to practice and refine future workplace behaviors. In contrast to parents and peers, faculty nearly always ranked as the lowest source of VAS information.Research limitations/implicationsSome Millennials demonstrate a keen awareness of the importance of relational communication, boding especially well for their relationships with future managers and for their leadership skills as they transition into positions of management.Practical implicationsFaculty should consider how to address three concerns: a potential lack of perceived relevance, workplace inferences based on college experiences and leveraging interactions to strengthen student practice of professional communication. Managers would be well served to anticipate how to address newcomers’ expectations that stem from interpreting communicative experiences in the college classroom as analogous to workplace interactions.Originality/valueThe data indicate that traditional ideas about the impact of vocational anticipatory socialization sources and messaging need to be rethought, and instead, it appears some of the most fruitful socialization experiences faculty can provide is in giving students space and opportunity to practice and refine future workplace behaviors.

Career Barriers Affecting First-Generation College Students: Can Socializing Messages Increase Career Confidence?

ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted on the career barriers emerging adults perceive hinder their future career success. Study One asked what barriers are believed to be obstacles to career opportunities. Results revealed eight distinct categories. Study Two integrated these findings with demographic variables, (i.e., first-generation college students (FGCS) and gender). Vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) sources and key indicators were examined as potentially overcoming perceived career barriers. Study Two’s findings showed that female students and FGCS reported more career barriers overall. The examination of VAS showed FGCS lack strong VAS network connections suggesting the need for further research to understand how VAS sources can decrease perceived career barriers.

Military identity and planning for the transition out of the military

ABSTRACT Everyone who serves in the military (and survives the experience) will eventually become a Veteran, and most will face the challenge of finding a civilian job. This paper investigates how contemporary Veterans experience the transition period between military exit and entrance into civilian life and how their own actions before separation shape their post-transition outcomes. We follow 35 servicemembers through the transition process, interviewing them before and several months after they left the military. These interviews reveal the importance of three factors – the conditions triggering their exit, the strength of their military identity, and their own planning (or lack thereof) for the transition to civilian life – in enhancing or detracting from achievement of a stated post-military goals and objective success in moving into work or school. The strength and depth of an individual’s institutional identity shapes how and when servicemembers plan for military exit and how they adjust to unanticipated military exits. Early planning reflects anticipatory socialization for new civilian roles and is associated with better post-military outcomes. But early planning is often hindered by a strong military identity or facilitated by a weak military identity. These findings have important implications for the military and advocates who serve them with the recent military policy changes to transition assistance and the retirement pension system that encourage early planning for post-military life.

The lived reality of public accounting interns

This study examines the lived reality of public accounting interns, including perceived benefits, costs, and competing frictions that are collectively relevant to the norms and social structures in this labor market. Our evidence suggests that benefits include knowledge acquisition for interns and readily available labor for firms. Costs include ethical dilemmas, pressures to conform, reality shocks, and shared suffering for interns, along with training investments and turnover for firms. Labor market frictions include variation in perceptions of success versus failure for interns, coupled with sustainability implications for the hiring model of firms. Reflecting on the mutuality of these labor market attributes, we present evidence on the consequences for both individuals and the profession. To do so, we collect survey evidence from 257 students who completed a ‘busy-season’ internship in the semester immediately prior to embarking on their Masters of Accountancy (MACC) program (January-April of 2014, 2015 and 2016). After reflecting on insights from that evidence, we then interviewed another 30 MACC students who had returned from their internships following the busy season of 2017 to gain in-depth qualitative evidence about the ‘lived reality’ of the internship experience, focusing on insights about anticipatory socialization, formative experiences and assimilation, along with differential expressions of both success and painful instances of failure. Our study provides details on a replicable internship model that has been sustainable for over 20 years at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and represents a detailed example relevant to understanding the apprenticeship model of public accounting.

Investigating the Factors Affecting the Professional Commitment of Accounting Students Using an Anticipatory Socialization Model

Investigating the Factors Affecting the Professional Commitment of Accounting Students Using an Anticipatory Socialization Model

“It gives you a better chance of getting a good job”: memorable messages, anticipatory socialization, and first-year college students’ understandings of the purpose of college

ABSTRACT Higher education has been commodified as neoliberal ideology is reflected in and perpetuated through social discourses, such as memorable messages. These discourses socialize young adults to college and shape their understanding about the purpose of higher education. Through in-depth interviews with 20 first-year college students, we found that the memorable messages students received from their family, peers, and high school teachers reinforce the dominant neoliberal, job-centered understanding of college’s purpose. In turn, we suggest critical communication pedagogy as a form of resistance instructors and institutions can use to promote a more expansive view of higher education and teaching/learning.

Registered Nurses’ Metamorphosed “Real Job” Experiences and Nursing Students’ Vocational Anticipatory Socialization

ABSTRACT Although communication scholars have studied organizational socialization extensively, few studies have investigated the extent that future newcomers’ anticipatory socialization experiences realistically prepare them for the “real job.” I conducted 32 one-on-one semi-structured interviews with registered nurses and nursing students to understand their experiences in becoming nurses. Two themes outline the motivators that attracted registered nurses and nursing students to the nursing profession. Furthermore, nursing students’ recent positive anticipatory socialization experiences can mitigate recent negative anticipatory socialization experiences and reinforce positive pre-college motivators to become nurses. In addition to contributing knowledge on nursing students’ anticipatory socialization experiences, I will also discuss the theoretical and applied importance of a pre-employment anticipatory socialization source.

Socialization to Science: Using Media to Help Young People in the United States Consider a Career in a STEM-related Field

ABSTRACT Vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) is a multi-year, multi-step process that begins in childhood and informs young adults about possibilities for their future work-life experience. This manuscript describes two field experiments that examine media as a VAS socialization source through an investigation of the impact of a televised STEM program geared to elementary school children between the ages of 8 and 14. Additionally, the gender of the television host was manipulated to examine the effect of host gender on increasing interest in STEM. A pretest/posttest design measured attitudes and interest changes in STEM and STEM careers following media viewing. The findings demonstrate that media acts as a socialization agent and can increase a child’s interest in STEM. Parental influence and gender differences are also discussed.

Popular culture at work: how emerging adults’ favorite celebrity can influence future career aspirations and work ethic

ABSTRACT The influence of celebrities on career aspirations has received little attention in vocational anticipatory socialization research. Two studies examined the potential role of a favorite celebrity or fictional character on emerging adults’ career aspirations and work ethic. Differences in celebrity versus fictional characters were examined. Both homophily and wishful identification predict the influence of celebrities and fictional characters on career aspirations. Additionally, wishfully identifying with celebrities was found to significantly predict participant work ethic.

PENGARUH KOMITMEN PROFESIONAL, SOSIALISASI ANTISIPATIF DAN LOCUS OF CONTROL TERHADAP WHISTLEBLOWING INTENTION

The purpose of this study was to determine (1) the effect of professional commitment on whistleblowing intention. (2) the effect of anticipatory socialization on whistleblowing intention. (3) the effect of locus of control on whistleblowing intention. This type of research is quantitative research. The data analysis used is descriptive quantitative to measure the influence of professional commitment, anticipatory socialization and locus of control on whistleblowing intention with the help of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciens (SPSS) program for windows. The results of this study indicate (1) Professional Commitment has a significant effect on Whistleblowing Intention in the Regional Government SKPD of East Flores Regency. This result is evidenced by the coefficient value of the Professional Commitment variable of 0.297 with tcount> ttable (2.354> 1.672) and a significant level of 0.022 <0.05. (2) Anticipatory Socialization has a significant effect on Whistleblowing Intention in the Regional Government SKPD of East Flores Regency. This result is evidenced by the coefficient value of the Anticipatory Socialization variable of 0.289 with tcount> ttable (2.195> 1.672) and a significant level of 0.033 <0.05. (3) Locus of Control has a significant effect on Whistleblowing Intention in the Regional Government SKPD of East Flores Regency. These results are evidenced by the value of the coefficient of the Locus of Control variable of 0.236 with tcount> ttable (2.105> 1.672) and a significant level of 0.040 <0.05.