TITLE:
How Does Objective Career Success Affect Subjective Career Success? The Moderating Role of Self-Awareness
AUTHORS:
Qianni Gu, Yong Su
KEYWORDS:
Subjective Career Success, Objective Career Success, Private Self-Awareness, Public Self-Awareness
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.4 No.3,
September
12,
2016
ABSTRACT: Studies on the relationship between objective career success and subjective career success are
seldom in the career success research. In this study, we hypothesize a positive relationship between
objective career success and subjective career success. Moreover, we conduct interview to
find out the new indicators for measuring the subjective career success in Chinese context. Further,
we come up with self-awareness as moderator. We hypothesize that people with high public
self-awareness have strong relationship between objective career success and subjective career
success; people with high private self-awareness have weak relationship between objective career
success and subjective career success. However, the results are not entirely as expected. The public
self-awareness has impact but the private self-awareness has no impact on this relationship.