Exploring the constructs of job and occupational embeddedness and the possible moderating effect by age.

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Yong, Chi King. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract / English version --- p.i / Chinese version --- p.iii / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of content --- p.V / Lists of tables --- p.vii / Lists of figures --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Overview of job and occupation embeddedness --- p.3 / Composite measure of job embeddedness and global measure of job embeddedness --- p.12 / Age as possible moderator of relations between embeddedness and intention to change --- p.13 / Literature review on socioemotional selectivity theory --- p.14 / "Super´ةs life-span, life-space model" --- p.15 / Change in intellectual abilities across age --- p.16 / Possible age differences in job and occupational embeddedness --- p.17 / Present study --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.21 / Participants --- p.21 / Measures --- p.22 / Procedure --- p.27 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.28 / Evidence of construct validity of composite job and occupational embeddedness --- p.28 / Structural equation modeling analyses --- p.35 / Global job and occupational embeddedness --- p.39 / Age moderation effect --- p.40 / Age differences analysis --- p.47 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.51 / General findings --- p.51 / Limitations --- p.54 / Future research --- p.55 / Implications --- p.56 / References --- p.58 / Footnotes --- p.63

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Tags

Labor turnover

Age and employment

Work--Psychological aspects

Psychology, Industrial

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_326815
Date	January 2009
Contributors	Yong, Chi King., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Psychology.
Source Sets	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language	English, Chinese
Detected Language	English
Type	Text, bibliography
Format	print, viii, 63 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Rights	Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)