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A Person-Centered Study of Construction Sector Workers' Goal Orientation Profiles and Their Connections to Approaches to Learning, Self-Efficacy, and Work Engagement

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Ilmari J. A. Puhakka; Markku Niemivirta; Liisa Postareff; Petri Nokelainen – Vocations and Learning, 2025

This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate construction workers' learning at work, focusing on their approaches to learning, self-efficacy beliefs and work engagement and how these vary according to their goal orientation profiles. Survey data were collected from Finnish construction sector employees (N = 1,280) in June 2021. The…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Skilled Workers