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Area of Science:

  • Health Care Education
  • Occupational Psychology
  • Sociology of Health

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented career shocks for health care students.
  • Understanding the impact of these shocks on future career paths is crucial for workforce development.
  • Social information processing theory provides a framework to analyze how external events influence perceptions and motivations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between career shocks and occupational calling among health care students.
  • To examine the mediating roles of perceived occupational characteristics and psychological states.
  • To explore the moderating effect of intrinsic motivation on these pathways.

Main Methods:

  • A four-wave prospective field study was conducted with 703 health care students in China.
  • Path analysis was used to test a moderated chained mediation model.
  • Baseline measures were collected to establish initial conditions.

Main Results:

  • Perceived impact of career shocks positively influenced perceptions of task significance and social worth.
  • Improved occupational perceptions led to enhanced meaningful work and prosocial motivation.
  • These psychological states, in turn, positively predicted occupational calling.
  • Intrinsic motivation was found to moderate the links between perceived occupational characteristics and psychological states.

Conclusions:

  • Career shocks can shape occupational calling through enhanced perceptions and psychological states, particularly in health care students.
  • The findings support a moderated chained mediation model, highlighting the complex interplay of factors.
  • Novel relationships between perceived occupational characteristics and psychological states were identified, offering avenues for future research and intervention.