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The Interplay of Occupational Motivation and Well-Being during the Transition from University to Work
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Haase, Claudia M.; Heckhausen, Jutta; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
A successful entry into work is one of the key developmental tasks in young adulthood. The present 4-wave longitudinal study examined the interplay between occupational motivation (i.e., goal engagement and goal disengagement) and well-being (i.e., satisfaction with life, satisfaction with work, satisfaction with partnership, positive affect,…
Descriptors: Motivation, Developmental Tasks, College Graduates, Depression (Psychology)
Constellations of New Demands Concerning Careers and Jobs: Results from a Two-Country Study on Social and Economic Change
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Wasilewski, Jacek – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Focusing on new demands posed by social and economic change, and applying a pattern-based approach, this study examined constellations of increasing labor market uncertainties (understood as threat) and increasing job-related learning tasks (understood as positive challenge). We investigated whether and how the groups of working individuals behind…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Labor Market, Economic Change
Work-Related Demands and Life Satisfaction: The Effects of Engagement and Disengagement among Employed and Long-Term Unemployed People
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Korner, Astrid; Reitzle, Matthias; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Social change has accentuated various demands in people's work lives including, for instance, fears of being laid off, anticipated or experienced difficulties in finding a new and/or appropriate job or a lack of security in career planning. The present study on N=1751 employed, short-term unemployed, and long-term (greater than 12 months)…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Career Planning, Employment Level, Life Satisfaction
Beneficial Effects of Disengagement from Futile Struggles with Occupational Planning: A Contextualist-Motivational Approach
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Tomasik, Martin J.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Globalized labor markets confront many adults, both employed and unemployed, with demands arising from career uncertainty that have the potential to jeopardize their occupational planning. This article investigated how individuals in different regions of Germany, which are characterized by different economic opportunities, negotiate such demands…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Economic Opportunities, Career Planning
Moderating Effects of Adolescents' Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Psychological Responses to Social Change
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Pinquart, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Juang, Linda P. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
This study investigated whether self-efficacy beliefs measured before the onset of social change would moderate effects of social change on adolescents' life satisfaction, optimism regarding their future, and educational success. Self-efficacy beliefs of 593 German adolescents were measured between 1985 and 1988 before German unification. In 1992,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Self Efficacy
Self-Efficacy and Successful School-to-Work Transition: A Longitudinal Study.
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Pinquart, Martin; Juang, Linda P.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2003
Academic self-efficacy and grades at ages 12-15 in relation to unemployment and job satisfaction at 21 were calculated from Germany archival data (n=391). The relationship between high self-efficacy and unemployment was mediated by higher career-related motivation. The relationship between self-efficacy and job satisfaction was mediated by higher…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Level, Foreign Countries, High School Students