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Work-life balance, job satisfaction and nurses retention: moderating role of work volition
International Journal of Business Excellence, 2016Retention of competent employees is becoming a huge challenge for organisations and more so for healthcare institutions. The growing shortage of nursing staff and its potential effect on the healthcare industry is of paramount importance. To retain the existing staff and to attract potential new entrants, healthcare organisations have to adopt ...
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The construction and initial validation of the Work Volition Scale
Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012This study constructed an instrument measuring work volition for adult populations, defined as the perceived capacity to make occupational choices despite constraints. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis produced a 3-factor structure containing subscales assessing general volition, financial constraints, and structural constraints. The full Work
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Work Volition and Work Environments: Impacts on Career Adaptability
Journal of Career DevelopmentThe present study investigated relationships among work volition, perceived autonomy support from supervisors, cognitive job demands, social support from colleagues, and career adaptability. With a sample of 216 working adults, we used structural equation modeling to test a model predicting career adaptability from work volition through autonomy ...
Megan E. Herdt, Kelsey L. Autin
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Linking Career Optimism to Work Volition and Future Decent Work
Journal of Career DevelopmentA mediation model based on the Psychology of Working Theory was proposed, placing career optimism as a mediator in the relationship between work volition and future decent work perceptions. Employing a sample of 380 Turkish undergraduate students, structural equation model results show that work volition is positively related to perceptions of future ...
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Factors Associated With Work Volition Among Aging Workers in Hong Kong
Journal of Career Development, 2015Work volition refers to the perceived ability of an individual to choose work under constraints. As they age, older workers often face declines in cognitive functioning and adaptability, as well as age discrimination in organizations. Our goal was to examine the relation between the mentioned constraints and work volition for aging workers, and ...
Francis Cheung +2 more
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Subjective social status, work volition, and career adaptability: A longitudinal study
Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2017Abstract Building from the Psychology of Working Theory, we explore relations between subjective social status, work volition, and career adaptability over time in a sample of 267 undergraduate students. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing study variables in three waves over a period of six months.
Kelsey L. Autin +4 more
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Work Volition and Job Satisfaction: Examining the Role of Work Meaning and Person–Environment Fit
The Career Development Quarterly, 2015Building on core principles within the Psychology‐of‐Working Framework (PWF; Blustein, , ), the authors examined mediators that may explain the link between work volition and job satisfaction among employed adults (135 women, 145 men). A structural equation model was tested hypothesizing that person–environment fit and work meaning would fully mediate ...
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Exploring the Role of Work Volition Within Social Cognitive Career Theory
Journal of Career Assessment, 2013The current study examined the role of work volition within social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) with a sample of 292 undergraduate students in science-related majors. Students with higher levels of volition endorsed higher levels of science self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and goals. Analyses revealed
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International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
Using the Psychology of Working Theory as a guide, the goal of this study was to examine the longitudinal relations of economic deprivation to work volition and work volition to academic satisfaction among college students. We sampled 1508 students and surveyed them at three time points over a 6-month period.
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Using the Psychology of Working Theory as a guide, the goal of this study was to examine the longitudinal relations of economic deprivation to work volition and work volition to academic satisfaction among college students. We sampled 1508 students and surveyed them at three time points over a 6-month period.
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[Job satisfaction, volition and reasons for choice of temporary work].
Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia, 2012In this paper, we reviewed the literature on volition and the principal studies on the reasons for choosing temporary work, which explain in more details how voluntary/involuntary status is interpreted. The description of a research, based on a sample of 1979 workers, is presented with two aims: 1.
Muzzolon C., Spoto A., Vidotto G.
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