Outputs (4)

Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability (2018)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Wang, Z., Gong, Q., Cai, Z., Xu, S., Xiang, Q., …Tian, L. (2018). Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability. The Counseling Psychologist, 46(7), 922-946. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000018808215

This study examined how Chinese parents’ career values and adaptability predict their career-specific parenting behaviors and their children’s career adaptability. We conducted a survey study with Chinese university students and their parents (N = 26... Read More about Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability.

The interplay of proactive personality and internship quality in Chinese university graduates' job search success: The role of career adaptability (2018)
Journal Article
Pan, J., Guan, Y., Wu, J., Han, L., Zhu, F., Fu, X., & Yu, J. (2018). The interplay of proactive personality and internship quality in Chinese university graduates' job search success: The role of career adaptability. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 109, 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.09.003

Based on the job characteristics model and career construction theory, this study examined the role of internship quality in the employment success of Chinese university students. A four-wave survey study was conducted in a sample of university gradu... Read More about The interplay of proactive personality and internship quality in Chinese university graduates' job search success: The role of career adaptability.

How much is enough in a perfect world? Cultural variation in ideal levels of happiness, pleasure, freedom, health, self-esteem, longevity, and intelligence (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, M., Bain, P., Harris, E., Lebedeva, N., Kashima, E., Guan, Y., …Blumen, S. (2018). How much is enough in a perfect world? Cultural variation in ideal levels of happiness, pleasure, freedom, health, self-esteem, longevity, and intelligence. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1393-1404. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618768058

The maximization principle—that people aspire to the highest possible level of something good if all practical constraints are removed—is a common yet untested assumption about human nature. We predict that in holistic cultures—where contradiction, c... Read More about How much is enough in a perfect world? Cultural variation in ideal levels of happiness, pleasure, freedom, health, self-esteem, longevity, and intelligence.

Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research (2018)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Arthur, M., Khapova, S., Hall, R., & Lord, R. (2019). Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110(Part B), 390--402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.05.013

The concept of boundaryless careers characterizes emerging career patterns that are less dependent on traditional organizational career management. Based on an evidence-based review of literature on the relationship between career boundarylessness an... Read More about Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research.