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Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation

This study investigated the possible mediation of career distress in the relationship between major incongruence and occupational engagement and whether this mediation depends on the degree of outcome expectation. Moderated mediation analysis was tested on a sample of 346 Korean undergraduate studen...

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Autores principales: Kim, Ji Geun, Lee, Ki-Hak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681127
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02360
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description This study investigated the possible mediation of career distress in the relationship between major incongruence and occupational engagement and whether this mediation depends on the degree of outcome expectation. Moderated mediation analysis was tested on a sample of 346 Korean undergraduate students. The results indicated that career distress mediated the relationship between major incongruence and occupational engagement. Moreover, the negative indirect effect of major incongruence on occupational engagement through career distress weakened as the level of outcome expectation increased. The significant mediation effect of career distress is meaningful given the evidence on the role of emotion in career adaptation. In addition, the significant moderation effect of cognitive evaluation and belief in the mediating relationship on career problem, career emotion, and career behavior is meaningful in that it provides insights in cognitive intervention that could be effective in career counseling.
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spelling pubmed-68132292019-11-01 Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation Kim, Ji Geun Lee, Ki-Hak Front Psychol Psychology This study investigated the possible mediation of career distress in the relationship between major incongruence and occupational engagement and whether this mediation depends on the degree of outcome expectation. Moderated mediation analysis was tested on a sample of 346 Korean undergraduate students. The results indicated that career distress mediated the relationship between major incongruence and occupational engagement. Moreover, the negative indirect effect of major incongruence on occupational engagement through career distress weakened as the level of outcome expectation increased. The significant mediation effect of career distress is meaningful given the evidence on the role of emotion in career adaptation. In addition, the significant moderation effect of cognitive evaluation and belief in the mediating relationship on career problem, career emotion, and career behavior is meaningful in that it provides insights in cognitive intervention that could be effective in career counseling. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6813229/ /pubmed/31681127 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02360 Text en Copyright © 2019 Kim and Lee. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title_full Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title_fullStr Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title_full_unstemmed Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title_short Major Incongruence and Occupational Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Model of Career Distress and Outcome Expectation
title_sort major incongruence and occupational engagement: a moderated mediation model of career distress and outcome expectation
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681127
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02360
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