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Cao, Chun; Zhang, Jian – Journal of Career Development, 2022
This study aimed to explore predictors of Chinese university faculty's occupational well-being in the reshaped work environment. To achieve this aim, the job demands-resources model was utilized to test the relationships of job demands (work-family conflict) and job resources (leader support) to occupational well-being among 375 university faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Well Being, Teaching Conditions
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Cheung, Francis; Wu, Anise M. S. – Journal of Career Development, 2014
This study adopted self-identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) to examine the role of affective and cognitive identification and the perception of aging with regard to Chinese employees' successful aging in the workplace. A total of 242 Chinese workers in Hong Kong aged 45 and above were recruited. Results showed that cognitive identification…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Workers, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology)
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Cotter, Elizabeth W.; Fouad, Nadya A. – Journal of Career Development, 2013
This study investigates burnout and work engagement in layoff survivors. Layoff survivors are defined as individuals who remain working at organizations that have recently had layoffs. Job demands (job insecurity and work overload) and job and personal resources (social support, optimism, career adaptability, and career management self-efficacy)…
Descriptors: Job Layoff, Burnout, Work Attitudes, Employee Attitudes
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Kanchier, Carole; Unruh, Wally R. – Journal of Career Development, 1989
This study investigated whether occupational changers differed from nonchangers with respect to (1) personal and demographic variables; (2) experience of the life cycle transition periods; and (3) work values, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Changers preferred intrinsic rewards, saw their jobs as vehicles for growth, took risks,…
Descriptors: Career Change, Job Satisfaction, Personality Traits, Values
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Munson, Harold L.; Rubenstein, Bonnie J. – Journal of Career Development, 1992
Schools can develop worker traits, behaviors, values, and attitudes in students by taking the view that school is a workplace and learners are workers. This concept involves analysis of classroom work functions and tasks, worker characteristics, physical demands, environmental conditions, and interest in, involvement in, and performance of work…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Career Education, Classroom Research, Individual Characteristics