Future work self salience and proactive career behavior in physical education college students: The role of regulatory focus effects

• Main Authors: Che-Chun Kuo, 郭哲君
• Other Authors: Chih-Fu Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35727675419494095348

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系 === 102 === Proactive behavior now is an essential research issue, which concerns with the psychological mechanism of making things happen, and focus on a seris of self-initiated, change-oriented and future-focused actions that directs to improve the situation or oneself. Recently, the research approach in proactivity started to put the aim on the individual’s career development, and researcher attempted to capture the antecedents and mechanisms of proactive behavior from the view of individual’s motivation. Drawing on the contention, this study extended the findings of Strauss, Griffin, and Parker (2012) to exam the motivation- behavior mechanism. The author applied the chronic focus (regulatory focus) as the antecedent variable of future work self-salience and proactive career behavior for examing the relations among the three variables. Also, this study based on the approach of positive psychology to test the relations among chronic focus, future work self-salience, and subjective well-being. In study one, 228 college students were recruited as the research participant for confirming the psychometrics properties of Chinese version of future work self-salience measure, future orientation measure, and proactive career behavior. The findings provided an empirical support that the three measures revealed well reliability and validity. Study two replicated the study one, the author took 225 physical education college students as research participants, the author recomfirmed the factor solution and construct validity of three measures. Furthermore, the results showed that promotion focus was significantly associated with proactive career behavior via future work self-salience, and promotion focus was significantly associated with subjective well-being via future work self-salience as well. In line with the theoretical suggestions of proactivity, the findings indicated that promotion focus play important roles in shaping students’ proactive career behavior and promoting psychological adjustment. When students with promotion focus are more likely to reveal salient future work self, which would enhance proactive career behavior and subjective well-being respectively. According to the findings of this study suggests that future research can investigate the regulatory fit effect (i.e. interaction between chronic focus and situation), and the longitudinal and experimental methods are recommended. In addition, this study suggests that future research can extend the proactivity concept to different contexts by using the Chinese version measure in this study. Finally, the findings suggest that the students’ motivational tendancy should be considered before the implement of career counseling intervention.