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- Title
Work Personality, Work Engagement, and Academic Effort in a Group of College Students.
- Authors
Strauser, David R.; O'Sullivan, Deirdre; Wong, Alex W. K.
- Abstract
The authors investigated the relationship between the variables of work engagement, developmental work personality, and academic effort in a sample of college students. This study provides evidence for the hypothesized positive relationship between academic effort, engagement, and work personality. When gender was controlled, the Work Tasks subscale of the Developmental Work Personality Scale (Strauser & Keim, 2002) made the largest contribution to predicting academic effort. Engagement also made a significant contribution to the model. For men, work personality seems to be more relevant concerning academic effort, whereas for women, engagement may be more important. A discussion of the constructs of work engagement and developmental work personality is included.
- Subjects
PERSONALITY; COLLEGE students; CAREER development; VOCATIONAL guidance; AGE &; intelligence; COGNITIVE ability
- Publication
Journal of Employment Counseling, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
0022-0787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2161-1920.2012.00006.x