Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) emphasizes the potential impact of contextual barriers on vocational self-efficacy, interests, and goals. However, most tests of SCCT to date have focused exclusively on person-level, perceptual barriers rather than objective, macroeconomic barriers that may influence large groups of people. In this study, we examine how the effects of personal experiences ...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach, based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

The aim of the study was to explore relationship between college graduates’ dual self-consciousness, job search clarity and perceived stress, reveal mediating role stress self-consciousness clarity. In this study, 467 graduates were investigated using Dual Self-Consciousness Scale, Job Search Clarity Perceived Stress Scale. After controlling for gender, age, region, results revealed that: (1) p...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that psychological constructs, such as emotional intelligence and emotional labor, play an important role in various organizational outcomes in service sector. Recently, in the "emotionally charged" healthcare field, emotional intelligence and emotional labor have both emerged as research tools, rather than just as theoretical concepts, influencing variou...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of job satisfaction among supermarket workers. A self administered questionnaire survey was conducted from July-September 2007. Data were collected from 111 supermarket workers in a major supermarket located in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia. Respondents were asked to complete a 10-item job satisfaction questionnaire. The response rate was 74%. The pe...