Career Identity Research Articles

Influence of COVID 19 on Nursing Students’ Career Identity: A Cross-sectional Study

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 has affected students’ education because they are more likely to be exposed to such infectious diseases during clinical practice in hospitals. This may result in inaccurate knowledge of coronavirus disease 2019 among nursing students and foster negative attitudes and fears about the virus, potentially resulting in negligent patient care. Objective: This study elucidates the relationship between nursing students’ knowledge, attitude, and fear of coronavirus disease 2019 and their career identity. Methods: We used structured self-reported questionnaires to assess knowledge, attitude, and fear about Coronavirus disease 2019 and career identity among 223 nursing students. We analyzed data using a t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: Satisfaction with the actual clinical practice (β=0.35, p<0.001), knowledge of coronavirus disease 2019 (β=.25, p<.001), attitude toward coronavirus disease 2019 (β=.17, p=.002), and fear of coronavirus disease 2019 (β=.39, p<.001) influenced students nurses’ career identity. Career guidance programs are needed to positively transform nursing students’ fear of Coronavirus disease 2019, to enhance their career identity. Educational content that can be used during clinical practice should be developed, to improve professional knowledge. Thus, the nursing students’ satisfaction with practice can be nurtured with a change of attitude toward infectious diseases. Besides active efforts and institutional arrangements at the national level, cooperation and feedback between schools and hospitals are important for nursing students to form a desirable career identity. Conclusion: Nursing students’ fear, knowledge, and attitude toward Coronavirus disease 2019 and satisfaction with the practice influence career identity. Moreover, it is necessary to develop educational content that can be used during clinical practice and improve professional knowledge. This will nurture the student nurses’ practice satisfaction and induce a change in attitude toward infectious diseases. Cooperation and feedback between schools and hospitals are of paramount importance for student nurses to form a desirable career identity, in addition to active efforts and institutional arrangements at the national level.

Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how a career shock, like the COVID 19 pandemic, decreases entrepreneurial career commitment (ECC). The authors look at the specific effect of career shock on stress and emotional exhaustion mediating the commitment, and how organizational and relational resources offset the shock to keep the entrepreneurs committed to their career.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a two-wave sample of 365 entrepreneurs collected four months apart. The authors initially recruited entrepreneurs three months after the pandemic started, then four months later, and tested these ideas with longitudinal data. The design was informed by the stress-strain-outcome (SSO) model to investigate career shock as stressors to entrepreneurs that are likely to produce emotional exhaustion and a decline in ECC.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that career shock affects stress, which in turn leads to a decline in commitment through the mediation effect of emotional exhaustion. Organizational resources (e.g. access to finance) do not impact ECC, stress or emotional exhaustion. However, relational resources (e.g. quality emotional support) are important for ECC by supporting a decrease in stress and emotional exhaustion.Research limitations/implicationsThis study makes three main contributions. Firstly, it advances career shock research in entrepreneurship, emphasizing its role in explaining entrepreneurial career commitment through stress-strain mediation. Secondly, it adds to the understanding of entrepreneurial career commitment and its impact on persistence in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial exit. Lastly, it supports the relevance of the Stress-Strain-Outcome model in entrepreneurship, demonstrating how career shock can decrease entrepreneurial career commitment through stress and emotional exhaustion. Further research is needed to explore the interaction of career identity and career planning in maintaining career resilience amidst career shocks.Practical implicationsThis study has practical implications for policymakers and service providers in entrepreneurship. It highlights the significance of resources, particularly relational resources, in maintaining psychological health and entrepreneurial career commitment (ECC). The findings support the importance of the Stress-Strain-Outcome (SSO) model in entrepreneurship, emphasizing the need for entrepreneurs to have access to relational resources as coping mechanisms. Policymakers and service providers should focus on enhancing entrepreneurs' capacity to acquire, protect, and develop relational resources. Additionally, the study suggests that entrepreneurs should seek access to both relational and organizational resources to effectively navigate career shocks, such as the pandemic. Further research is needed to explore the role of other types of resources, such as social capital and psychological capital, in entrepreneurial well-being and persistence.Originality/valueThis study demonstrates that a career shock affects stress, which in turn leads to a decline in commitment only through the mediation effect of emotional exhaustion. The panel/longitudinal data analysis demonstrates the causality in the process, highlighting the positive role of the entrepreneur's relational resources. Specifically, it shows that an increase in access to relational resources causes a decrease in stress and emotional exhaustion, which in turn causes ECC to improve. Entrepreneurs are ill-equipped to face a career shock if they lack these resources.

Entrepreneurial but not Entrepreneur: How Entrepreneurial Identity Shapes Career Identities

Entrepreneurial but not Entrepreneur: How Entrepreneurial Identity Shapes Career Identities

잠재프로파일 분석을 활용한 일반계 고등학교 학생의 자아인식 유형화와 교육포부, 직업결정수준과의 관계 분석

Objectives The purpose of this study is to categorize the self-awareness of Korean General high-school students’ and analyze whether there is a difference in educational aspiration and job decision level by type of self-awareness. Methods For this purpose, data from the sixth year of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) 2010 were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 8.0. The number of samples used for the analysis is 1,366. Results First, the self-awareness types of 3rd grade general high-school students were divided into four types which are self-diffusion type, career identity laden type, search progressive type, and career-resilience laden type. Second, the educational aspiration of the self-diffusion type is significantly lower than that of search progressive type and of career identity laden type. Third, the level of job decision of each type of self-awareness showed a statistically significant difference. Specifically, the job decision level of career-resilience laden type is the highest, then that of career identity laden type is next, and that of search progressive type, that of self-diffusion type is the lowest. Conclusions Practical and academic proposals were derived based on the research results. At the practical level, ministries need to emphasize self-identity and self-esteem in the curriculum, and schools need customized support for each type of self-awareness. Students need to raise self-awareness and make efforts to develop self-directed career development. At the academic level, it was suggested that follow-up studies are needed on diversification of research subjects, multidimensional exploration of factors influencing educational aspiration, and illuminatation of self-awareness to improve career and job decision-making levels.

The Rural Lifeworld as a Pathway to Career Identity: Lessons From a Non-School Internship Study

This case examines two Appalachian Ohio organizations outside the boundaries of formal schooling that address issues of youth outmigration and sustainable community development through non-school internships. Twenty-five participants who completed internships from 2016–2020 were interviewed on topics related to their career pathways, social capital acquisition, and community connections. This case relates to the 3rd wave of economic development which has elevated social capital and cross-sector collaboration, but also the emerging 4th wave of economic development that finds communities prioritizing people and “place-making”. The key finding — participants’ career narratives — indicates place plays an emotional and material role in fostering entrepreneurship education and similar forms of workforce development in rural areas.

Stratejik İnsan Kaynakları Yönetiminin Yenilikçilik Üzerindeki Etkisinde Toplam Kalite Yönetiminin Aracı Rolü

This study aims to analyze the impact of human resources management on the innovativeness of employees and the role of total quality management practices as mediator in this relationship. Innovativeness is an important issue for all organizations as one of the critical success factors in surviving and, achieving and maintaining a competitive advantage. In order to build an innovative organization structure, intellectual capital and therefore human resources management attract a lot of attention in the literature. And choosing the right person, shaping an environment for developing skills and abilities, and promoting innovative efforts with an ideal career management become a serious issue. On the other hand, total quality management stands out as a phenomenon that has the potential to reinforce the effect of human resources management on innovation. These relationships were tested by empirical study. For this purpose, a questionnaire was formed from the scales developed in the literature and field study was applied to employees in an enterprise operating in the aviation sector. As a result of the field study, a data set of 252 people was obtained. Firstly, the construct validity was tested by applying validity and reliability tests. And then the hypotheses were tested through structural equality modeling. As a result of the analyses, we found that strategic human resources management has significant and positive effect on total quality management practices and innovation. Total quality management practices have a significant and positive effect on innovation. The mediating role of total quality management in this relationship has been partially confirmed.

Escaping the Siren Song—Transitioning to Part-Time Work

In this narrative medicine essay, a hematologist redirects her long-embraced ideal career as an academic physician for a more balanced life and for the work she loves in a part-time position.

Relationship between honesty-credit, specialty identity, career identity, and willingness to fulfill the contract among rural-oriented tuition-waived medical students of China: a cross-sectional study.

The fulfillment of contractual obligations by rural-oriented tuition-waived medical students (RTMSs) to work in rural medical institutions after graduation directly impacts the improvement of rural health quality. This study aimed to not only quantitatively measure the direct impact of honesty-credit, specialty identity, and career identity on willingness to fulfill the contract of RTMSs but also to quantify the intermediary role of specialty identity and career identity between honesty-credit and willingness to fulfill the contract. The research results provided recommendations for the rural-oriented tuition-waived medical education (RTME) program to achieve its goal of training rural primary healthcare personnel. From March to May 2022, 1162 RTMSs were selected as the research objects. The honesty-credit, specialty identity, career identity, and willingness to fulfill the contract were quantitated using a self-completed questionnaire. Pearson's correlation analysis and structural equation modeling were used for statistical analysis and mediating effect evaluation. A total of 455 (42.3%) RTMSs had high willingness to fulfill the contract, and honesty-credit had a significant direct positive effect on willingness (β = 0.198, P < 0.001), specialty identity (β = 0.653, P < 0.001), and career identity (β = 0.180, P < 0.001). In the intermediary path between honesty-credit and willingness, career identity [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.007-0.051] had significant mediating effects. Career identity (95% CI: 0.030-0.149) also had significant mediating effects between specialty identity and willingness, and specialty identity (95% CI: 0.465-0.760) had significant mediating effects between honesty-credit and career identity. These results strongly confirmed that honesty-credit, specialty identity, and career identity are early and powerful predictors of the willingness to fulfill the contract of RTMSs. The honesty-credit of RTMSs can predict their willingness to fulfill the contract early, significantly and positively. For the students who fail to pass the credit assessment for many times and have a strong tendency to default, their training qualifications should be canceled in time, so that students who are truly willing to serve rural areas can enter the project, and finally achieve the policy goal of "strengthening the rural primary medical and health system".

Career identity, career commitment, and self-efficacy: the role of gender and family characteristics

Abstract The career attitudes and decisions of both male and female employees depend not only on the situation at work but are also influenced by their family dynamics. This paper explores the differences in the relationship between career identity and career commitment and tested self-efficacy as a moderating variable for employees with different family dynamics. It also considered whether these relationships vary among male and female employees. The results show that in the female subsample the moderator was significant, while for males selfefficacy did not play a significant role. In terms of family characteristics, being married/cohabiting and being married/cohabiting with dependents in the household were found to be relevant differentiating factors among females when it comes to the significance of the moderating effect. In the male sample self-efficacy exhibited a significant effect only in the group of male employees with dependents.

Career Capital and Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Career Adaptability and Identity of Normal Student

Career Capital and Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Career Adaptability and Identity of Normal Student

The Mediating Effect of Character Strengths in the Relationship between Grit and Career Identity in University Students

The Mediating Effect of Character Strengths in the Relationship between Grit and Career Identity in University Students

Constructing the Career Identity of Academics: A Multiple Case Study on Distinguished Academics

Son dönemde dünyada ve Türkiye’de akademisyenler değerlendirilirken performans ve sıralama öne çıkmaktadır. Akademisyenlerle ilgili yapılan çalışmalar genel itibariyle akademisyenleri listelemeye yönelik olup, akademisyenlere başarıyı getiren yetişme süreçlerinin ele alınmadığı görülmektedir. Bu kapsamda araştırmanın amacı, seçkin akademisyen olarak tanımlanan başarılı akademisyenlerin kariyerlerinin gelişim ve kariyer kimliklerinin inşa süreçlerini incelemektir. Nitel araştırma yöntemiyle tasarlanan araştırmada, vaka çalışması yaklaşımı benimsenmiştir. Araştırma iki aşamalı yürütülmüştür. İlk aşamada sosyal ve beşerî bilimler (a), fen ve mühendislik bilimleri (b) ve sağlık bilimleri ve yaşam (c) alanlarından birer akademisyene ait önce doküman incelemesi yapılmış, ikinci aşamada ise akademisyenlerle mülakatlar gerçekleştirilmiştir. Deşifre edilen mülakat dokümanları anlatı analizine tabi tutulmuştur. Sonuç olarak seçkin akademisyenlerin kariyer kimliklerini merak ve sürekli çalışma üzerine kurdukları görülmüştür. Kariyer kimliklerini inşa ederken rol modeller kariyerlerini çalışma disiplini ile ve akademik olarak etkilemiştir. Seçkin akademisyenlerin doktora süreçlerinde doktora tezi onları geliştirmiş ve danışmanları onları olumlu yönde etkilemiştir. Çıkardıkları yayınlar kariyerlerinin merkezindedir ve kariyer başarılarının göstergesidir. Seçkin akademisyenler akademik çalışmalarını ekip çalışması ve iş birliği ile yürütmektedirler. Aynı zamanda kurdukları uluslararası ilişkiler de bu çalışmalarına destek olmuştur. Akademisyenlerin yaptıkları akademik işler yanında, vakitlerini alan yayın dışı akademik işleri de mevcuttur. Bütün bunların yanında seçkin akademisyenlerin önemli başarıları vardır ve kariyer kimliklerinde bu başarıyı vurgulamaktadırlar.

키워드 네트워크 분석을 활용한 대학생 진로준비행동 연구동향 분석

Objectives The purpose of this study were to analyze the trend of college students' career preparation behavior research from 1997 to 2022 through keyword network analysis.&#x0D; Methods Among the papers published in RISS, papers related to career preparation behavior of college students were extracted and divided into the first half (1997-2015) and the second half (2016-2022) based on 2016. Keyword frequency analysis and network analysis were performed and visualized for each period.&#x0D; Results As a result of the network analysis, the keywords with high connection centrality and mediation centrality in the first half were ‘career decision self-efficacy’, ‘self-efficacy’, ‘career maturity’, ‘career decision level’, ‘career barriers’, ‘career identity’, ‘employment preparation behavior’ and ‘self-leadership’. And in the second half year, ‘career decision self-efficacy’, ‘major satisfaction’, ‘career barrier’, ‘social support’, ‘career decision level’, ‘nursing college student’, ‘job preparation behavior’, ‘grit’, and ‘mediating effect’ were. ‘Career maturity’, ‘self-efficacy’, and ‘career decision’ were keywords with high centrality in the first half year, but lowered in the second half, while ‘major satisfaction’, ‘social support’, ‘nursing college student’, ‘grit’, ‘positive psychological capital’, ‘career adaptability’, ‘career elasticity’, and ‘resilience’ were keywords with low centrality in the first half, but increased centrality in the second half.&#x0D; Conclusions The trend of research on career preparation behavior of college students showed differentiated characteristics by period. Studies on environmental variables and the ability to cope with job insecurity and uncertainty in work increased in the second half.

Employability Is a Journey: Conceptualising Processual Employability as a Career Identity Emergence Process

This paper aims to conceptualise processual employability with identity theory to reflect the amorphous and developmental nature of employability. Through literature review, we propose a model demonstrating how the career identity emergence process is linked with processual employability behaviour through four stages of identity change: Identity Enactment, Identity Validation, Identity Construction, and Identity Exploration. Each stage is driven by the tension between the individual’s current career identity and the experienced social interactions with a changing Individual–World of Work Interface, which eventually constitutes an iterative process of employability suitable for the individual career context. It thus clarifies how the pursuit of an achieved career identity drives processual employability in a fast-changing social context and provides a holistic view of employability as a journey of identity changes. This review responds to the call for integrating developmental and sustainable views into employability and also enriches identity-based employability theories.

How Job Crafting Affects Hotel Employees’ Turnover Intention during COVID-19: An Empirical Study from China

Based on self-regulation theory, this study examines the relationship between job crafting, career identity, job engagement, and turnover intention among hotel staff in China amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This research draws on the observations of 1453 hotel employees in China for its empirical data and analysis by SPSS and AMOS. Job crafting positively impacts career identity and job engagement but negatively impacts turnover intention. The turnover intentions of hotel employees are negatively impacted by their feelings of career identity and job engagement. Additionally, the mediating role of career identity and job engagement in the connection between job crafting and turnover intention is further discussed and illustrated. Research on the topic of job crafting in the hotel sector workplace is examined in this study, and its influence on job performance measures is evaluated. Both hotel employees and academics may benefit greatly from this study’s conclusions.

A Multiple Case Study of Career Construction and Career Development Processes of People with Adventitious Blindness

A Multiple Case Study of Career Construction and Career Development Processes of People with Adventitious Blindness

간호대학생의 간호전문직 자아개념, 임상실습만족도, 임상수행능력이 진로정체감에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study was to detect nursing professional self-concept, clinical practice satisfaction, clinical competence, career identity, to identify factors that affect career identity for nursing students who have experienced clinical practice until the first semester of the fourth grade, and to use it as basic data to develop nursing education programs that form the right career identity of nursing students. From June 15 to July 10, 2022, an online survey of 191 fourth-year nursing students at two universities in G City was conducted through a self-reported questionnaire to collect data. The data collected in this study were analyzed using the SPSS 19.0 program. As a result of this study, the average of career identity and nursing professional self-concept on a four-point scale were 2.52 points and 3.19 points, respectively, and the clinical performance ability and clinical practice satisfaction on a five-point scale were 4.0 and 3.81 points, respectively. The factors affecting the subject's career identity are professional self-concept (β=.34, p&lt;.001), selection motives (β=.27, p&lt;.001), major satisfaction (β=.22, p&lt;.001), clinical practice satisfaction (β=.21, p&lt;.001), and these variables showed 56% explanatory power for career identity. In conclusion, this study suggested that grade-specific major adaptation programs and theory and practice education-linked nursing education programs that can improve nursing professional self-concept, major and clinical practice satisfaction are needed to establish a career identity of nursing students. In addition, it is suggested that each university needs to strengthen career experience programs so that high school students can choose a nursing department in consideration of their correct understanding and aptitude for nursing major.

대학생의 성장마인드셋이 프로티언 경력태도에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study is to confirm the effect of college students' growth mindset on their protean career attitude, and to verify the dual mediating effect of career identity and proactive personality in the relationship between them. A survey was conducted on 219 college students. For the collected data, descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation analysis were conducted with SPSS 25.0. To verify the mediating effect, the PROCESS macro's Model 6 was used to confirm the dual mediating effect of career identity and proactive personality and the significance of indirect effects was verified using the bootstrapping method. The main results are as follows. First, the growth mindset of college students showed a positive effect on the protean career attitude. Second, the mediating effect of proactive personality was verified in the relationship between college students' growth mindset and protean career attitude. Third, in the relationship between college students' growth mindset and protean career attitude, there was a dual mediating effect of career identity and proactive personality. Based on these conclusions, the theoretical and practical implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

Construction and operationalisation of an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review (2016–2022)

ABSTRACT This paper aims to conceptualise and operationalise an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review of 42,558 manuscripts from Web of Science and Scopus databases published between 2016 and 2022 from the fields of graduate employability and career development incorporating applied psychology, business, education, and management. Two research questions are addressed. (1) How can literature addressing various forms of capital in the context of preparing university graduates for the labour market be integrated to offer a new ECGM? (2) How can various actors, i.e. (a) students and graduates, (b) educators, (c) careers and employability professionals, and (d) graduate employers, operationalise the ECGM? The systematic literature review resulted in a final corpus of 94 manuscripts for qualitative content analysis. Findings led to the construction of a new ECGM comprising nine forms of employability capital (social capital, cultural capital, psychological capital, personal identity capital, health capital, scholastic capital, market-value capital, career identity capital, and economic capital), external factors, and personal outcomes. Twenty-three opportunities for the operationalisation of the ECGM were also identified. The theoretical and conceptual contribution comes from constructing a new ECGM to bridge the fields of graduate employability and career development in the context of preparing individuals for the transition from university into the labour market. The practical contribution comes from operationalising the ECGM at the education-employment nexus. Consequently, developing various forms of capital and an awareness of external factors and personal outcomes can improve students’ and graduates’ employability, benefitting all actors operating in a career ecosystem.

Evolving as an entrepreneur: a life story approach to studying Indian women entrepreneurs

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to understand how women develop entrepreneurship as a career identity through women's various life stages. Using a life story approach, the authors study the formation of Indian businesswomen's entrepreneurial identity in businesswomen's unique socio-cultural context.Design/methodology/approachThe study drew upon 15 semi-structured interviews with practicing women entrepreneurs using a qualitative methodology. Gioia methodology was used to systematically analyze the data for theory building.FindingsThe narratives of the Indian women entrepreneurs indicate that Indian women's entrepreneurial identity was a developmental process influenced by various episodes in different life stages-childhood, adolescence, marriage and motherhood. Life episodes influenced the creation and enactment of this entrepreneurial identity, which led to the emergence of entrepreneurship as a career choice.Research limitations/implicationsThe study's retrospective design may have raised concerns involving memory recall. The open-ended questions gave the participants the freedom to recount the life episodes that influenced the participants the most and may have partly mitigated this concern.Originality/valuePrior studies have focused on specific life stages of women entrepreneurs, without taking a holistic life-story view, thereby missing out on how career identity is formed as a result of life episodes. Using the developmental psychology approach, the authors provide a nuanced and holistic lens to understanding women's entrepreneurship.