TY - JOUR
T1 - Career Locus of Control and Career Success Among Chinese Employees
T2 - A Multidimensional Approach
AU - Guan, Yanjun
AU - Wang, Zhen
AU - Dong, Zhilin
AU - Liu, Yukun
AU - Yue, Yumeng
AU - Liu, Haiyang
AU - Zhang, Yuqing
AU - Zhou, Wenxia
AU - Liu, Haihua
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Project 71102107 supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET), and Research Incubation Funding from School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China.
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The current research aimed to develop a multidimensional measure of career locus of control (LOC) and examine its predictive validity on objective and subjective career success among Chinese employees. Items of career LOC were generated based on literature review of the significant predictors of career success, as well as the open-ended responses among Chinese employees (N = 30). Principal component analysis (Study 1, N = 204) revealed that career LOC consists of three factors: internal factor, external factor, and chance factor, which was consistent with the framework proposed by Levenson (1974). Results of confirmatory factor analysis among another sample of Chinese employees (Study 2, N = 646) supported this three-factor structure. Predictive validity analysis showed that after controlling for the effects of demographic, organizational and industrial variables, internal career LOC was positively related to both objective and subjective career success; chance factor was negatively related to subjective career success, but not related to objective career success. Theoretical and practical implications of this research were discussed.
AB - The current research aimed to develop a multidimensional measure of career locus of control (LOC) and examine its predictive validity on objective and subjective career success among Chinese employees. Items of career LOC were generated based on literature review of the significant predictors of career success, as well as the open-ended responses among Chinese employees (N = 30). Principal component analysis (Study 1, N = 204) revealed that career LOC consists of three factors: internal factor, external factor, and chance factor, which was consistent with the framework proposed by Levenson (1974). Results of confirmatory factor analysis among another sample of Chinese employees (Study 2, N = 646) supported this three-factor structure. Predictive validity analysis showed that after controlling for the effects of demographic, organizational and industrial variables, internal career LOC was positively related to both objective and subjective career success; chance factor was negatively related to subjective career success, but not related to objective career success. Theoretical and practical implications of this research were discussed.
KW - career locus of control
KW - objective career success
KW - subjective career success
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876008516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1069072712471324
DO - 10.1177/1069072712471324
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84876008516
SN - 1069-0727
VL - 21
SP - 295
EP - 310
JO - Journal of Career Assessment
JF - Journal of Career Assessment
IS - 2
ER -