 If I can do it my way…The influence of regulatory focus on job-related values and job attractionKai Sassenberg and Annika Scholl Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, vol. 38, issue C, 58-70 Abstract: Research on person-job fit has so far not taken into account individuals’ self-regulation strategies. The current research aimed to make up for this research deficit by studying the impact of regulatory focus on the endorsement of job-related values and job attraction. It was predicted that the stronger individuals’ promotion focus is, the more they endorse the job-related values power and self-direction, whereas the stronger the prevention focus, the more they endorse the value security at work. In addition, regulatory focus was expected to predict attraction by a job with characteristics meeting the values fitting an individual’s regulatory focus. One longitudinal and two cross-sectional studies supported these predictions. These findings indicate that self-regulation should be considered in research on person-job fit and related applied fields such as career counseling and personnel selection. Keywords: Regulatory focus; Job-related values; Job attraction (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:joepsy:v:38:y:2013:i:c:p:58-70 DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.09.003 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Psychology is currently edited by G. Antonides and D. Read More articles in Journal of Economic Psychology from Elsevier |
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