The rise in working university students is a global phenomenon with more than half of the student population working while studying at university. Within this trend of dual participation, working students face unique stressors such as work-study conflict and facilitation. Work-study conflict drives students' poor health, whereas work-study…

The authors tested a model based on the satisfaction model of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) that links college students' affective commitment to their major (the emotional identification that students feel toward their area of study) with career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and career outcome expectations. Results indicate that CDSE…

Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have struggled to explain women's career choices. The current language, including "opting out," "on and off ramping," and "mommy track," is not only inadequate but assumes a deviation from an accepted norm. We challenge the relevance of the paradigm against which women are being judged, namely, the…

Outlines a conceptual framework for job change analogous to a thermostat, in which job satisfaction is the "thermometer," change in a job or between jobs is the "adjustment lever," and values, life status, readiness to change, and job opportunities are the "controls." (26 references) (SK)

Critiques Loughead and Black's conceptual framework of the "job change thermostat" (CE 521 788). Modifies the metaphor and adds the concept of beliefs that affect career choices and changes. (SK)

Adds operational definitions to Loughead and Black's "job change thermostat" concept and suggests research that can test and extend the framework. (23 references) (SK)

Proposes statistical methodology for testing Loughead and Black's "job change thermostat." Discusses choice of target population; relationship between job satisfaction and values, perceptions, and opportunities; and determinants of job change. (SK)

Career entrenchment is immobility resulting from substantial economic and psychological investment in a career that makes change difficult. A survey of 476 workers in various occupational groups found that those higher in entrenchment had higher organizational commitment, lower withdrawal intentions, and longer tenure. (Author/JOW)