TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Emotional Experiences in Commitment Development in Internship Students
AU - Kunnen, E. Saskia
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by a grant of the collaborative research project psychology. The collection of the data in this study was the result of a joint effort of Toon Kuppens, Sascha Krom and the author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In this study I address the relation between real-time experiences and vocational identity development in psychology students during their practical internship. By means of a multi-method approach I aimed to shed light on the role of salient emotional experiences in commitment development, and on the characteristics of these experiences. In a diary study internship students reported every week about their most relevant experience. For each student the most salient positive and negative emotional experience was selected. Most positive and negative experiences concerned competence-related issues. Salient emotional experiences were related to commitment change for a prolonged period of time. In line with the theoretical models, salient positive emotional experiences enhance the commitment strength, and salient negative emotional experiences reduce the strength. However, many experiences include different characteristics. In particular, negative emotional experiences are characterized by a diversity of both positive and negative characteristics.
AB - In this study I address the relation between real-time experiences and vocational identity development in psychology students during their practical internship. By means of a multi-method approach I aimed to shed light on the role of salient emotional experiences in commitment development, and on the characteristics of these experiences. In a diary study internship students reported every week about their most relevant experience. For each student the most salient positive and negative emotional experience was selected. Most positive and negative experiences concerned competence-related issues. Salient emotional experiences were related to commitment change for a prolonged period of time. In line with the theoretical models, salient positive emotional experiences enhance the commitment strength, and salient negative emotional experiences reduce the strength. However, many experiences include different characteristics. In particular, negative emotional experiences are characterized by a diversity of both positive and negative characteristics.
KW - Commitment development
KW - emotional experiences
KW - longitudinal research
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U2 - 10.1080/15283488.2023.2235392
DO - 10.1080/15283488.2023.2235392
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165485553
SN - 1528-3488
VL - 23
SP - 379
EP - 393
JO - Identity
JF - Identity
IS - 4
ER -