Time Is on My Side: Time, General Mental Ability, Human Capital, and Extrinsic Career Success
Time Is on My Side: Time, General Mental Ability, Human Capital, and Extrinsic Career Success
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DOI：
10.1037/a0017594
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Simon, Lauren S.
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作者：
Judge, Timothy A.;Klinger, Ryan L.;Simon, Lauren S.
本研究使用多层次框架将一般心理能力 (GMA) 与外在职业成功联系起来，该框架包括时间和 GMA 与职业成功关系的 3 个可能的基于时间的中介因素。基于大量全国样本的结果显示，在 28 年的时间里，GMA 影响了 2 个外在职业成功指标（收入和职业声望）的增长，因此随着时间的推移，高 GMA 个人的职业生涯比低 GMA 个人的职业生涯上升得更快。随着时间的推移，高 GMA 个体的外在成功增长更快，部分原因是他们接受了更多的教育，完成了更多的职业培训，并倾向于从事更复杂的工作。随着时间的推移，GMA 还调节了中介变量的个体内部差异对外部职业成功的个体内部差异的影响程度：对于更聪明的人来说，教育、培训和工作复杂性更有可能转化为职业成功。
The present study linked general mental ability (GMA) to extrinsic career success using a multilevel framework that included time and 3 possible time-based mediators of the GMA-career success relationship. Results, based on a large national sample, revealed that over a 28-year period, GMA affected growth in 2 indicators of extrinsic career success (income and occupational prestige), such that the careers of high-GMA individuals ascended more steeply over time than those of low-GMA individuals. Part of the reason high-GMA individuals had steeper growth in extrinsic success over time was because they attained more education, completed more job training, and gravitated toward more complex jobs. GMA also moderated the degree to which within-individual variation in the mediating variables affected within-individual variation in extrinsic career success over time: Education, training, and job complexity were much more likely to translate into career success for more intelligent individuals.