Self-esteem change during the transition from university to work.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study examined whether the transition from university to work, a major developmental milestone in young adulthood, was related to stability and change in self-esteem.

Method

Self-esteem was assessed in the last year of their master's program (T1) of 163 27-year old students and 14 months later, when they had graduated and half of them had started a full-time job (T2). Daily diaries were used to assess the occurrence of achievement- and affiliation-related experiences on 14 consecutive days at T1 and T2. We compared the full-time job beginners and a comparison group without a full-time job with regard to their mean-level change, rank-order stability and correlated change of self-esteem and daily experiences.

Results

First, job beginners increased

SUBMITTER: Reitz AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7383858 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature