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

Yong, Chi King.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62).Abstract also in Chinese.AbstractEnglish version --- p.iChinese version --- p.iiiAcknowledgement --- p.ivTable of content --- p.VLists of tables --- p.viiLists of figures --- p.viiiChapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1Background --- p.1Overview of job and occupation embeddedness --- p.3Composite measure of job embeddedness and global measure of job embeddedness --- p.12Age as possible moderator of relations between embeddedness and intention to change --- p.13Literature review on socioemotional selectivity theory --- p.14"Super´ةs life-span, life-space model" --- p.15Change in intellectual abilities across age --- p.16Possible age differences in job and occupational embeddedness --- p.17Present study --- p.19Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.21Participants --- p.21Measures --- p.22Procedure --- p.27Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.28Evidence of construct validity of composite job and occupational embeddedness --- p.28Structural equation modeling analyses --- p.35Global job and occupational embeddedness --- p.39Age moderation effect --- p.40Age differences analysis --- p.47Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.51General findings --- p.51Limitations --- p.54Future research --- p.55Implications --- p.56References --- p.58Footnotes --- p.6