Pub Date : 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104096
Laura Urrila , Aija Siiriäinen , Liisa Mäkelä , Hilpi Kangas
Despite a wealth of research on flexible work, the understanding of the social and relational implications of hybrid work—a type of flexible work that combines remote and onsite work—is limited. This qualitative study investigates how individuals experience belonging in the hybrid working context. We present findings from 32 interviews conducted at two time-points between 2020 and 2022 with 16 expert employees. Our analysis reveals particular aspects of hybrid work that are related to working remotely (Control over work and personal time; Remote working skills; Virtual communication practices) and working onsite (Human connection; Information exchange; Relevance of onsite work). Based on our research, we theorize how the physical asynchrony attached to working remotely (i.e., alone, usually at home) and the physical synchrony attached to working onsite (i.e., alongside others) may contribute to employees' sense of belonging in hybrid work. We also debate potential early signs of work loneliness, and what might constitute satisfactory work relationships in hybrid work. We encourage future research on psychological needs satisfaction in hybrid work settings and recommend that organizations deploy hybrid working models that support connection.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104097
Ann M. Mirabito , David Solnet , Bethany S. Cockburn , Maria Golubovskaya , Xinyu (Judy) Hu , Laura E. McClelland , Richard N.S. Robinson
High psychological work demands, low decision latitude, and minimal social support, together with disproportionate burdens from environmental threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tax the well-being of low-income frontline workers (FLWs). While worker well-being is linked with productivity and engagement, little is known about the well-being journeys of FLWs in precarious, low-paid, low-status roles. We conducted qualitative research with precarious FLWs to investigate the effects of the interplay of their personal and work experiences on their lifelong well-being journeys. We uncover the influential role of the interaction between external events (jolts) and salient resources on well-being trajectories. Precarious FLWs with resources proactively engage in job crafting in response to positive or negative jolts. However, those with few or no resources respond to positive jolts by yearning to craft but remain frozen in the face of negative jolts. In addition to extending the employee well-being literature to include FLWs in precarious roles, this research makes two important theoretical contributions. First, the interaction of jolts and resources reveals a four-part typology explaining precarious FLWs' crafting engagement and intensity—striving, rebounding, yearning, and frozen—thus empirically underscoring the theorized psychosocial dynamism of precarity. Second, by integrating crafting, positive organizational scholarship, and conservation of resources theories, we illuminate the underlying mechanisms governing the influence of jolts and resources on behaviors and, ultimately, identity and well-being. Our theory offers guidance for employers seeking to enhance precarious FLWs' well-being and improve organizational outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104080
Alexandre J.S. Morin , Christian Vandenberghe , Joon Lee , Nicolas Gillet
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate the structure, stability, antecedents, and outcomes of employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets. Following Perreira et al.'s (2018) hierarchical representation of commitment, profiles of affective commitment were estimated by considering both global levels of commitment to the work life and specific levels of commitment to organization, supervisor, coworkers, occupation, work, and career. To this end, a sample of 468 individuals working in firefighting stations located in France was surveyed twice over a four-month period. Our results revealed six commitment profiles: (1) Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Organizational Orientation, (2) Globally Weakly Committed with a Balanced Orientation, (3) Globally Strongly Committed with an Occupational Orientation, (4) Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Supervisor Orientation, (5) Globally Strongly Committed with a Career Orientation, and (6) Globally Strongly Committed with a Social Orientation. Over time, these profiles displayed a high level of within-sample and within-person stability. Global levels of authentic leadership were related to a higher likelihood of membership into profiles displaying higher global levels of commitment (especially those with a social or occupational orientation) than into the other profiles. Levels of perceived health, work efficiency, improvement-oriented behaviors, and job satisfaction also differed across profiles, with some of the worst outcomes found in the Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Organizational Orientation profile.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104067
Yannan Gao , Jacquelynne S. Eccles , Anna-Lena Dicke
Concerns with diversifying and expanding the STEM workforce have elicited extensive efforts to increase women's adherence to a “no leak pipeline” to match that of men. However, is such a trajectory optimal for boosting women's STEM career attainment? If so, among which types of STEM occupations? Studies often suggested that women are underrepresented in the pipeline of “white-collar”, mathematical, engineering, physical, and computer science (MEPCS) occupations, but to what extent does this conclusion hold true among other types of STEM careers? To answer these questions, we plotted men's and women's STEM career trajectories from age 13 to 25 using a U.S. national longitudinal sample and categorized occupations by domain-specific knowledge (i.e., non-STEM, MEPCS, or LEHMS [life, ecological, health and medical sciences]) and by educational requirement (i.e., “blue-collar” non-STEM, "blue-collar" STEM, "white-collar" non-STEM, or “white-collar” STEM). We found gender similarities in STEM attrition, gender differences in STEM entry, and gender differences in STEM career attainment trajectories. For example, STEM workers rarely took a “no leak pipeline”, except women in LEHMS occupations. Moreover, tracking the size of STEM workforce longitudinally, we found that though small, women's MEPCS workforce expanded to nearly twice its size as participants grew from age 13 to 25; in contrast, the LEHMS workforce shrank to less than a third of its size among both men and women. Our results specify aspects in which STEM trajectories of men and women differ across various types of STEM occupations and thus provide an updated understanding of gendered STEM career trajectories.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104081
Lisa Handke , Giverny De Boeck , Sharon K. Parker
In this paper, we integrate Action-Regulation Theory into job crafting research to explore workers' agency in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to redesign their work. Specifically, using a sequential mixed-methods design, we investigate workers' proactive use of ICTs for job crafting. In Study 1, we explore workers' use of ICTs to change their job demands and job resources using interviews and identify seven underlying ICT use crafting tactics. In Study 2, we find support for the factorial structure of the seven ICT use crafting tactics and provide evidence of their relevance by testing the relationships between these seven tactics and established measures of job crafting, key antecedents of job crafting (proactive personality, personal initiative), and key outcomes of job crafting (skill utilization, person-environment-fit), using a two-wave survey. We discuss theoretical implications for the literature on job crafting and work-related ICT use, and formulate practical recommendations for organizations to support the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting.
{"title":"Exploring the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting","authors":"Lisa Handke , Giverny De Boeck , Sharon K. Parker","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we integrate Action-Regulation Theory into job crafting research to explore workers' agency in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to redesign their work. Specifically, using a sequential mixed-methods design, we investigate workers' proactive use of ICTs for job crafting. In Study 1, we explore workers' use of ICTs to change their job demands and job resources using interviews and identify seven underlying ICT use crafting tactics. In Study 2, we find support for the factorial structure of the seven ICT use crafting tactics and provide evidence of their relevance by testing the relationships between these seven tactics and established measures of job crafting, key antecedents of job crafting (proactive personality, personal initiative), and key outcomes of job crafting (skill utilization, person-environment-fit), using a two-wave survey. We discuss theoretical implications for the literature on job crafting and work-related ICT use, and formulate practical recommendations for organizations to support the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104081"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104076
Jacquelyn M. Brady , Leslie B. Hammer , Mina Westman
Drawing on Conservation of Resources theory and Crossover theory, we investigated the potential for crossover of a personal resource, resilience, from supervisors to employees. Specifically, the present study examined whether supervisor resilience influences employee well-being (i.e., psychological distress, burnout, and life satisfaction) via a top-down resilience crossover process. The present study utilized a time-lagged design with three data points over a 9-month period. The sample consisted of 178 supervisors and 741 employees from the United States National Guard. Multi-level models controlling for baseline levels of the outcome variables demonstrated support for time-lagged resilience crossover from supervisor to employee. Moreover, results demonstrated support for the subsequent indirect effects on improved employee well-being outcomes including lower burnout and psychological distress, and greater life satisfaction. As such, our research contributes to our understanding of promoting employee resilience, crossover effects, and promoting employee well-being. In doing so, we integrate COR theory and Crossover theory to elucidate personal resource crossover as it pertains to supervisor and employee resilience. Additionally, we expand on understanding of how supervisor resilience can have indirect positive effects on employee well-being. Implications for theory and practice, as well as future research directions are also discussed in light of our findings.
{"title":"Supervisor resilience promotes employee well-being: The role of resource crossover","authors":"Jacquelyn M. Brady , Leslie B. Hammer , Mina Westman","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on Conservation of Resources theory and Crossover theory, we investigated the potential for crossover of a personal resource, resilience, from supervisors to employees. Specifically, the present study examined whether supervisor resilience influences employee well-being (i.e., psychological distress, burnout, and life satisfaction) via a top-down resilience crossover process. The present study utilized a time-lagged design with three data points over a 9-month period. The sample consisted of 178 supervisors and 741 employees from the United States National Guard. Multi-level models controlling for baseline levels of the outcome variables demonstrated support for time-lagged resilience crossover from supervisor to employee. Moreover, results demonstrated support for the subsequent indirect effects on improved employee well-being outcomes including lower burnout and psychological distress, and greater life satisfaction. As such, our research contributes to our understanding of promoting employee resilience, crossover effects, and promoting employee well-being. In doing so, we integrate COR theory and Crossover theory to elucidate personal resource crossover as it pertains to supervisor and employee resilience. Additionally, we expand on understanding of how supervisor resilience can have indirect positive effects on employee well-being. Implications for theory and practice, as well as future research directions are also discussed in light of our findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 104076"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104095
Joseph Regina , Tammy D. Allen
Using data from 1995 to 2016, we examined how work interference with family (WIF) and father involvement relate to life satisfaction synchronously as well as 10 and 20 years later with hypotheses informed by life course theory. Specifically, father involvement was tested as a mediator of the relationships from WIF to life satisfaction among 387 working fathers who participated in three waves of the Midlife in the United States data collection. Moreover, the moderating effect of gender egalitarian beliefs about childcare (GEBC) on the relationship between father involvement and life satisfaction was tested. To test hypotheses, a 5000 bootstrap path model was created wherein direct relationships from WIF (Time 1) to life satisfaction (Time 1, 2, and 3) were modeled as were indirect relationships via father involvement (Time 1); additionally, GEBC (Time 1) was set to moderate the relationships from father involvement to all three measures of life satisfaction. Results suggest WIF was negatively, and father involvement was positively, related to life satisfaction at all timepoints, and that father involvement partially mediated the relationship from WIF to life satisfaction across all timepoints. Results also suggest a stronger relationship between father involvement and life satisfaction among fathers with greater GEBC, which emerged for life satisfaction at Time 1 and at Time 3. Results inform on the short- and long- term ramifications of work-family decisions, with relevance for careers and wellbeing.
{"title":"“Cats in the cradle:” Work-family conflict, parenting, and life satisfaction among fathers","authors":"Joseph Regina , Tammy D. Allen","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using data from 1995 to 2016, we examined how work interference with family (WIF) and father involvement relate to life satisfaction synchronously as well as 10 and 20 years later with hypotheses informed by life course theory. Specifically, father involvement was tested as a mediator of the relationships from WIF to life satisfaction among 387 working fathers who participated in three waves of the Midlife in the United States data collection. Moreover, the moderating effect of gender egalitarian beliefs about childcare (GEBC) on the relationship between father involvement and life satisfaction was tested. To test hypotheses, a 5000 bootstrap path model was created wherein direct relationships from WIF (Time 1) to life satisfaction (Time 1, 2, and 3) were modeled as were indirect relationships via father involvement (Time 1); additionally, GEBC (Time 1) was set to moderate the relationships from father involvement to all three measures of life satisfaction. Results suggest WIF was negatively, and father involvement was positively, related to life satisfaction at all timepoints, and that father involvement partially mediated the relationship from WIF to life satisfaction across all timepoints. Results also suggest a stronger relationship between father involvement and life satisfaction among fathers with greater GEBC, which emerged for life satisfaction at Time 1 and at Time 3. Results inform on the short- and long- term ramifications of work-family decisions, with relevance for careers and wellbeing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104095"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104093
Sogol Yazdankhoo , Peyman Abkhezr , Donna McAuliffe , Mary McMahon
This article reports on a systematic literature review that investigated the current state of knowledge on migrant women's career development within the two fields of migration studies and career development/vocational psychology. Migrant women, a heterogeneous population, undergo significant transitions navigating post-migration uncertainties. A wide range of post-migration factors and experiences often adversely impact their career development in various contexts. By synthesizing multidisciplinary research, this review focused on articles published in 38 major journals between 2000 and 2023 within the fields of ‘migration studies’ and ‘career development’. The findings highlight the methodologies employed, research participants including the nature of migration and destination countries, and conceptual/theoretical frameworks, and synthesize key findings and recommendations made in the articles. The comprehensive understanding gained through this review may inform policies that emphasize gender equity and sustainable development for migrant women and host countries. The review highlights gaps in career development and vocational psychology literature, such as the lack of localized research approaches that consider the specific contexts and systemic influences that impact migrant women's career development. This review contributes new perspectives on migrant women's career development, enriching career development and vocational psychology research, theory, and practice.
{"title":"Migrant women navigating the intersection of gender, migration, and career development: A systematic literature review","authors":"Sogol Yazdankhoo , Peyman Abkhezr , Donna McAuliffe , Mary McMahon","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article reports on a systematic literature review that investigated the current state of knowledge on migrant women's career development within the two fields of migration studies and career development/vocational psychology. Migrant women, a heterogeneous population, undergo significant transitions navigating post-migration uncertainties. A wide range of post-migration factors and experiences often adversely impact their career development in various contexts. By synthesizing multidisciplinary research, this review focused on articles published in 38 major journals between 2000 and 2023 within the fields of ‘migration studies’ and ‘career development’. The findings highlight the methodologies employed, research participants including the nature of migration and destination countries, and conceptual/theoretical frameworks, and synthesize key findings and recommendations made in the articles. The comprehensive understanding gained through this review may inform policies that emphasize gender equity and sustainable development for migrant women and host countries. The review highlights gaps in career development and vocational psychology literature, such as the lack of localized research approaches that consider the specific contexts and systemic influences that impact migrant women's career development. This review contributes new perspectives on migrant women's career development, enriching career development and vocational psychology research, theory, and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104093"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104094
Helen H. Zhao , Shuning Liu , Xiaoming Zheng , Ning Li , Shun Yiu , Xin Liu
Social capital has been widely used to explain employees' objective and subjective career success. However, having social capital is one thing, and being able to use it is another thing. In the seminal social resources theory, the social mobilization process is theorized as a key intermediary process to transform social capital into valued job or career outcomes (Lin, 1999, 2001). Despite its importance, social capital mobilization has received limited scholarly attention, possibly due to the empirical challenges of measuring it as real-time events or individual behaviors over an extended career trajectory. We innovatively bypass this long-standing methodological challenge by focusing on the social capital that has already been mobilized at some point in time. We argue that social capital is mobilized from time to time and accumulates into mobilized social capital stored within an individual's social network. Through a qualitative study, we inductively identified three forms of mobilized social capital in the networks of retrieval, referral, and reinforcement (3Rs), which respectively capture the retrieval of career-related information, opportunities arising from social connections, and productivity spillover from social contacts. In a subsequent quantitative study, we employed a whole-network approach in a small high-tech start-up to operationalize these 3Rs and found that retrieval and reinforcement were positively associated with two career success outcomes (i.e., salary and career satisfaction), while referral was positively associated with supervisor-rated promotability.
{"title":"Mobilized social capital and career success: A model of retrieval, referral, and reinforcement","authors":"Helen H. Zhao , Shuning Liu , Xiaoming Zheng , Ning Li , Shun Yiu , Xin Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social capital has been widely used to explain employees' objective and subjective career success. However, having social capital is one thing, and being able to use it is another thing. In the seminal social resources theory, the social mobilization process is theorized as a key intermediary process to transform social capital into valued job or career outcomes (Lin, 1999, 2001). Despite its importance, social capital mobilization has received limited scholarly attention, possibly due to the empirical challenges of measuring it as real-time events or individual behaviors over an extended career trajectory. We innovatively bypass this long-standing methodological challenge by focusing on the social capital that has already been mobilized at some point in time. We argue that social capital is mobilized from time to time and accumulates into mobilized social capital stored within an individual's social network. Through a qualitative study, we inductively identified three forms of mobilized social capital in the networks of retrieval, referral, and reinforcement (3Rs), which respectively capture the retrieval of career-related information, opportunities arising from social connections, and productivity spillover from social contacts. In a subsequent quantitative study, we employed a whole-network approach in a small high-tech start-up to operationalize these 3Rs and found that retrieval and reinforcement were positively associated with two career success outcomes (i.e., salary and career satisfaction), while referral was positively associated with supervisor-rated promotability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104094"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104092
Yael Goldfarb , Ofer Golan , Eynat Gal
Due to the growing prevalence of autism diagnosis, counselors in various settings are more likely to encounter autistic adults seeking employment-related counseling and support. Research on employment in the field of autism has focused mostly on a person-environment fit perspective, which does not take into account the complexity of career behavior and contemporary developments in vocational psychology. The current study examined career narratives of autistic adults, with the aim of understanding how they perceive their work experiences and construct their career identities in relation to labor market norms. Twelve autistic employees took part in narrative interviews, which were analyzed employing dialogical narrative analysis. Findings revealed the recurrence of two major themes, conceptualized as a two-dimensional ‘autism career identity construction model’: (1) adapting vs. defiant views on job market demands and career norms, and (2) acceptance vs. rejection of the autism diagnosis. Findings illustrate ways in which autistic individuals position themselves in relation to both dimensions. The possible contribution of the model to theoretical understandings in the field is discussed, as well as potential applications for career counseling and vocational rehabilitation practices.
{"title":"A narrative approach to career identity construction of autistic adults","authors":"Yael Goldfarb , Ofer Golan , Eynat Gal","doi":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Due to the growing prevalence of autism diagnosis, counselors in various settings are more likely to encounter autistic adults seeking employment-related counseling and support. Research on employment in the field of autism has focused mostly on a person-environment fit perspective, which does not take into account the complexity of career behavior and contemporary developments in vocational psychology. The current study examined career narratives of autistic adults, with the aim of understanding how they perceive their work experiences and construct their career identities in relation to labor market norms. Twelve autistic employees took part in narrative interviews, which were analyzed employing dialogical narrative analysis. Findings revealed the recurrence of two major themes, conceptualized as a two-dimensional ‘autism career identity construction model’: (1) adapting vs. defiant views on job market demands and career norms, and (2) acceptance vs. rejection of the autism diagnosis. Findings illustrate ways in which autistic individuals position themselves in relation to both dimensions. The possible contribution of the model to theoretical understandings in the field is discussed, as well as potential applications for career counseling and vocational rehabilitation practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51344,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vocational Behavior","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104092"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}