Peter A Creed
Biographic Data
| ID | 382632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter A Creed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter A |
| FAMILY NAME | Creed |
| SIGNATURE | CREED P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8671-501X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Working Students and Precarious Employment: A Latent Profile Analysis
Combining work and study is challenging for most students, especially when they are in more precarious work contexts. Identifying which students struggle with this would better inform interventions and advance theory. Using a sample of working tertiary students (N = 415) and a person-centered research approach (latent profile analysis), we identified five different sub-groups of students based on indicators of precarious employment– high precario…
Maximizing and Satisficing in Job Search: A Person-Centred Approach
The existing literature calls for greater clarity on how different job search strategies influence outcomes and wellbeing. In Study 1 ( N = 1052; M age = 25.48; 41.9% females), we developed and validated the Maximizing and Satisficing Job Search Scale (MSJSS). Results demonstrated its associations with existing measures of general maximizing and satisficing tendencies and job search outcomes (e.g., choice regret, number of offers, and outcome sat…
How Career Development Is Affected When Students Work in Precarious Jobs: Impact of Meritocratic Beliefs
Most tertiary students now work to support themselves, but some are motivated by improving their employability and career development. However, many work in precarious jobs and the relationship between job quality and career development is poorly understood. We tested how precarious employment related to career capital, whether perceptions of organisational career growth (i.e. goal progress and ability development) explained this, and whether mer…
Negative Career Goal Discrepancy and Goal Adjustment in Young Adults: The Underlying Mechanism of Negative Emotions
Internal dissonance and disagreement with significant others over career goals can disrupt career progress. Based on goal setting and self-regulation theories, this study tested the relationships between self and parent career goal discrepancy (gap between what is desired and what is achieved) and career goal adjustment (career compromise and goal revision intentions) directly and indirectly via negative emotions (self- and parent-referenced care…
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for young people in the labor market. Based on an evolutionary life history perspective, we tested how and when perceived scarcity of job opportunities during the pandemic related to job search outcomes. Using a sample of Master’s student graduates ( N = 1434; 40.2% female; mean age 25.6 years) from one Chinese university, we found that scarcity was related to higher anxiety, which then related…
It Takes Work: How University Students Manage Role Boundaries when the Future is Calling
Managing boundaries between students’ work and study roles is crucial for success at university. Little research has examined the strategies used to manage these roles, the factors that relate to implementing them, and the outcomes associated with their use. Boundary management theory, an identity-based perspective, explains boundary management processes; yet, few studies have examined how identity affects the enactment of boundary strategies. We…
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism
We assessed the underlying mechanisms through which career motivational conflict was related to career volitional action in young adults. We tested a model in which career motivational conflict (parent-child career incongruence and career goal progress discrepancy) was related to reduced career volitional actions (career decision self-efficacy and career engagement) via self-regulatory failure (ego depletion in reference to talking to parents abo…
Fostering science interests through head‐mounted displays
Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement
Relatively little is known about how working students manage their dual roles of work and study. To extend this research, we examined the direct and indirect relationships between boundary flexibility-ability (the appraised capacity to modify a boundary of one role to accommodate better the demands of another role) and boundary flexibility-willingness (the preparedness to do so) in both the work and study domains and outcomes of student burnout a…
The relationship between job precariousness and student burnout: A serial indirect effects model
Much research has examined the association between precarious employment and wellbeing in adults, but little is known about this relationship in working students. Using a sample of 224 (MAge 21 years; 68% female), we assessed self-perceptions of job precariousness across four domains (i.e., job insecurity, remuneration, conditions, flexibility) and tested the relationships between the four domains and student burnout, and whether these relationsh…
Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: A serial indirect effects model
We examined how mature-aged, non-traditional students (studying part-time, working full-time) managed their multiple roles by testing a serial, indirect effects model, in which student role congruence (i.e., extent to which students structure role boundaries to meet their own and others’ preferences) was related to study engagement, and where work-study conflict/facilitation and exhaustion, in sequence, were underlying mechanisms that explained t…
Adolescent–Parent Career Congruence as a Predictor of Job Search Preparatory Behaviors: The Role of Proactivity
Based on social cognitive career theory, we examined the mediating roles of job search self-efficacy and outcome expectations in the relationship between adolescent–parent career congruence and job search preparatory behaviors and investigated the influence of proactivity as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Participants were 236 Grade 10 and 11 Indonesian students (mean age 16 years, 67% male), who were attending a vocation…
The Relationship Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Career Outcomes: A Life History Perspective
Based on the life history perspective, this study tested a serial mediation model in which family socioeconomic status (SES) related to person–job fit via resource scarcity, career exploration, and goal persistence. We expected that when seeking employment, higher SES students would perceive lower resource scarcity, and, in turn, adopt more adaptive career behaviors (i.e., career exploration and goal persistence) to maximize career success, which…
Organisational career growth: Implications for future perceived employability in students who work
A comparison between flipped and lecture-based course delivery of a career development programme for Chinese undergraduates
Existing research on the effectiveness of career courses often lacks evidence on the comparative effects of different pedagogical formats. This study compared the effects of a flipped classroom approach to a traditional lecture-based approach for delivering a career course among Chinese undergraduate students. A longitudinal quasi-experimental field design was used to assess changes in the career outcomes between the flipped and non-flipped group…
Recovery resources mediate between work-study boundary congruence and wellbeing and engagement in tertiary students
It is important for individuals to manage the boundaries between their different roles as this affects their personal functioning and wellbeing. Little is known, however, about how students manage their role boundaries between work and study. We tested a work-study boundary congruence model, in which student boundary congruence (i.e. the correspondence between students’ boundary preferences and their boundary constraints) was associated with stud…
Career Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in Young Adults: The Role of Financial Distress
Informed by goal-setting/self-regulatory theories, we tested the mediating role of career-related effort (i.e., goal striving) in the relationships between career-related indecision (i.e., goal ambiguity) and career-related stress (i.e., affect) and perceived employability (i.e., career-related attitude) and examined the effect of financial distress as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Using a sample of 202 young adults ( M …
The Discrepancies Between Individual-Set and Parent-Set Career Goals Scale: Development and Initial Validation
As there was no existing, psychometrically sound scale that directly assessed the discrepancies that young people experience between individual-set career goals and parent-set career goals, we developed and provided initial validation for a 15-item scale for use with young adults. In Study 1, items were developed, reviewed by experts, and administered to a sample of first year, undergraduate Indonesian students ( N = 426, M age = 18.42 years). We…
Applying boundary management theory to university students: A scoping review
The relationship between meritocratic beliefs and career outcomes: The moderating role of socioeconomic status
An Identity Control Theory Approach to Managing Career Identity in Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood provides an extended period during which potential career identities can be explored and feedback obtained before making a commitment. We tested an identity control theory model of the self-regulatory responses that emerging adults might make to negative feedback regarding their career identity. We surveyed 335 Australian emerging adults (mean age 19.28 years; 64% male) on negative career-related feedback, career-related goal d…
Coping with medical training demands: Thinking of Dropping Out, or in It for the Long Haul
Medical trainees are at risk of psychological distress due to training workload demands. Dropping out of medicine has hidden and real costs to both the public and the individual. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this study assessed differences in stress and coping strategies between those serious and not serious about dropping out of medicine. A total of 854 medical students and junior doctors completed a web-based survey assessi…
Longitudinal Relations of Parental Influences and Adolescent Career Aspirations and Actions in a Collectivist Society
Using social cognitive career theory as a framework, we examined the longitudinal effects of proximal parental contextual influences on career aspirations and actions in a collectivist context. We used a sample of 954 Indonesian high school students and measured parental career expectations, adolescent‐parent career congruence, self‐efficacy, outcome expectations, career aspirations, planning and exploration, twice, 6 months apart. The best‐fitti…
Making a connection: School engagement of young people in care
Intervention to improve educational attainment for children in out‐of‐home care is increasingly being recognized as important for their well‐being and future opportunities. This paper reports on a mixed method study of the school engagement or connectedness of young people in care. The study comprised a survey of 202 young people in care in Q ueensland, A ustralia, and a matched comparison group of young people not in care, plus interviews with a…
The school to work transition for young people in state care: Perspectives from young people, carers and professionals
Workforce participation has many positive effects on quality of life. However, as young people in care have generally below-average levels of educational participation and attainment, they may be ill-equipped for the transition to further education and work. A mixed-method study conducted in Australia about career development for young people in care investigated how this population develops ideas about future work: the social and cognitive varia…
Medical specialty prestige and lifestyle preferences for medical students
Economic deprivation, experiential deprivation and social loneliness in unemployed and employed youth
One hundred and forty‐eight youth were allocated to one of four occupational sub‐groups: 47 unemployed with no access to paid work; 32 unemployed with access to some paid work; 30 unemployed with access to regular paid work; and 39 full‐time employed. All participants were assessed for levels of Economic Deprivation, Experiential Deprivation, Social Loneliness and Psychological Distress. Results indicated that Economic Deprivation and Experientia…
Self-esteem and self-efficacy outcomes for unemployed individuals attending occupational skills training programs
This paper reports on immediate and long-term well-being and confidence outcomes for unemployed individuals who attended occupational skills/personal development training courses. Results for unemployed trainees were compared with an unemployed waiting-list control group. Outcomes investigated were self-esteem and job-search self-efficacy. Immediate benefits were identified for both dependent variables, and some support was identified for long-te…
Perspectives of Young People in Care About their School-to-Work Transition
Achieving in education and employment has long-term effects on quality of life. With below-average levels of educational attainment, many young people in care are ill-equipped for the transition from school to further education and work. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that explored the school to work transition experiences of young people currently or previously in care, and their ideas about future employment. A range of p…
The school to work transition for young people in state care: Perspectives from young people, carers and professionals
Workforce participation has many positive effects on quality of life. However, as young people in care have generally below-average levels of educational participation and attainment, they may be ill-equipped for the transition to further education and work. A mixed-method study conducted in Australia about career development for young people in care investigated how this population develops ideas about future work: the social and cognitive varia…
Making a connection: School engagement of young people in care
Intervention to improve educational attainment for children in out‐of‐home care is increasingly being recognized as important for their well‐being and future opportunities. This paper reports on a mixed method study of the school engagement or connectedness of young people in care. The study comprised a survey of 202 young people in care in Q ueensland, A ustralia, and a matched comparison group of young people not in care, plus interviews with a…
Models of Cultural Adjustment for Child and Adolescent Migrants to Australia: Internal Process and Situational Factors
Longitudinal Relations of Parental Influences and Adolescent Career Aspirations and Actions in a Collectivist Society
Using social cognitive career theory as a framework, we examined the longitudinal effects of proximal parental contextual influences on career aspirations and actions in a collectivist context. We used a sample of 954 Indonesian high school students and measured parental career expectations, adolescent‐parent career congruence, self‐efficacy, outcome expectations, career aspirations, planning and exploration, twice, 6 months apart. The best‐fitti…
The Role of Carers and Caseworkers in the School-to-work Transition of Young People in Care
How young people in State care decide upon future careers, and the support offered for this process by carers and child protection caseworkers, has received little research attention. This qualitative study sought the views of young people in care, foster and kinship carers, and child protection caseworkers about career development for in-care youth. We found young people were thinking about career options but encountered a safety driven, acute c…
The career aspirations and action behaviours of Australian adolescents in out-of-home-care
Coping with medical training demands: Thinking of Dropping Out, or in It for the Long Haul
Medical trainees are at risk of psychological distress due to training workload demands. Dropping out of medicine has hidden and real costs to both the public and the individual. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this study assessed differences in stress and coping strategies between those serious and not serious about dropping out of medicine. A total of 854 medical students and junior doctors completed a web-based survey assessi…
Development and Initial Validation of the Children's Optimistic and Pessimistic Expectations of Relationships Scale
Theory suggests that children's developing conceptions and views of relationship are important outcomes of social experiences, which can affect later relationships and mental health. However, research has been limited because no measure is currently available that captures children's pessimistic and optimistic expectations of relationships. Two studies were conducted with children (aged 9 to 12 years) with the purpose of developing such ameasure …
Personality Characteristics in Unemployed Australian Males—Implications for “Drift” Hypothesis in Unemployment
This paper contrasts the personality characteristics of a sample of 171 unemployed males with comparative data drawn from a normative sample of 1,930 employed males, using the Gordon Personal Profile–Inventory. Significant differences were identified on dimensions of Ascendancy, Responsibility, Cautiousness, and Personal Relations. Implications for the “drift” versus “social causation” models of unemployment are examined
Personality Characteristics in Unemployed Australian Males--Implications for 'Drift' Hypothesis in Unemployment
This paper contrasts the personality characteristics of a sample of 171 unemployed males with comparative data drawn from a normative sample of 1,930 employed males, using the Gordon Personal Profile–Inventory. Significant differences were identified on dimensions of Ascendancy, Responsibility, Cautiousness, and Personal Relations. Implications for the “drift” versus “social causation” models of unemployment are examined
Improving mental health status and coping abilities for long-term unemployed youth using cognitive-behaviour therapy based training interventions
This paper reports on immediate and long-term well-being outcomes for a group of long-term unemployed youth who attended specially devised training courses based on the cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) model. The courses were aimed specifically at improving the mental health of participants, and providing them with coping skills to deal better with the negative consequences of prolonged unemployment. Results for participants were compared with a…
Economic deprivation, experiential deprivation and social loneliness in unemployed and employed youth
One hundred and forty‐eight youth were allocated to one of four occupational sub‐groups: 47 unemployed with no access to paid work; 32 unemployed with access to some paid work; 30 unemployed with access to regular paid work; and 39 full‐time employed. All participants were assessed for levels of Economic Deprivation, Experiential Deprivation, Social Loneliness and Psychological Distress. Results indicated that Economic Deprivation and Experientia…
Self-esteem and self-efficacy outcomes for unemployed individuals attending occupational skills training programs
This paper reports on immediate and long-term well-being and confidence outcomes for unemployed individuals who attended occupational skills/personal development training courses. Results for unemployed trainees were compared with an unemployed waiting-list control group. Outcomes investigated were self-esteem and job-search self-efficacy. Immediate benefits were identified for both dependent variables, and some support was identified for long-te…
Access to the Latent Benefits of Employment for Unemployed and Underemployed Individuals
A sample of job seekers ( N = 161) were assessed on measures of well-being and the latent benefits of employment. The unemployed reported less access to the latent benefits than the underemployed. In a finer grained analysis, there was a monotonic increase from least to most access to the latent benefits from those with no paid work in the past three months, some paid work in the past three months, some current paid work, to those with considerab…
Access to the Latent Benefits of Employment for Unemployed and Underemployed Individuals
A sample of job seekers (N=161) were assessed on measures of well-being and the latent benefits of employment. The unemployed reported less access to the latent benefits than the underemployed. In a finer grained analysis, there was a monotonic increase from least to most access to the latent benefits from those with no paid work in the past three months, some paid work in the past three months, some current paid work, to those with considerable …
Access to the Latent Benefits of Employment for Unemployed and Underemployed Individuals
Access to the Latent Benefits of Employment for Unemployed and Underemployed Individuals
Career Maturity and Well-Being as Determinants of Occupational Status of Recent School Leavers: A Brief Report of an Australian Study
The present study tracked a group of Year 12 students 9 months after leaving high school and sought to identify whether age, gender, data on career maturity, psychological wellbeing, and school achievement reported while still at school could be identified as predictors of occupational status. Data on these variables were able to identify broad postschool occupational groupings of school leavers at Time 2 (T2), whether they were in full-time stud…
Models of Cultural Adjustment for Child and Adolescent Migrants to Australia: Internal Process and Situational Factors
Perspectives of Young People in Care About their School-to-Work Transition
Achieving in education and employment has long-term effects on quality of life. With below-average levels of educational attainment, many young people in care are ill-equipped for the transition from school to further education and work. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that explored the school to work transition experiences of young people currently or previously in care, and their ideas about future employment. A range of p…
Medical specialty prestige and lifestyle preferences for medical students
The school to work transition for young people in state care: Perspectives from young people, carers and professionals
Workforce participation has many positive effects on quality of life. However, as young people in care have generally below-average levels of educational participation and attainment, they may be ill-equipped for the transition to further education and work. A mixed-method study conducted in Australia about career development for young people in care investigated how this population develops ideas about future work: the social and cognitive varia…
The Role of Carers and Caseworkers in the School-to-work Transition of Young People in Care
How young people in State care decide upon future careers, and the support offered for this process by carers and child protection caseworkers, has received little research attention. This qualitative study sought the views of young people in care, foster and kinship carers, and child protection caseworkers about career development for in-care youth. We found young people were thinking about career options but encountered a safety driven, acute c…
Development and Initial Validation of the Children's Optimistic and Pessimistic Expectations of Relationships Scale
Theory suggests that children's developing conceptions and views of relationship are important outcomes of social experiences, which can affect later relationships and mental health. However, research has been limited because no measure is currently available that captures children's pessimistic and optimistic expectations of relationships. Two studies were conducted with children (aged 9 to 12 years) with the purpose of developing such ameasure …
The career aspirations and action behaviours of Australian adolescents in out-of-home-care
Making a connection: School engagement of young people in care
Intervention to improve educational attainment for children in out‐of‐home care is increasingly being recognized as important for their well‐being and future opportunities. This paper reports on a mixed method study of the school engagement or connectedness of young people in care. The study comprised a survey of 202 young people in care in Q ueensland, A ustralia, and a matched comparison group of young people not in care, plus interviews with a…
Longitudinal Relations of Parental Influences and Adolescent Career Aspirations and Actions in a Collectivist Society
Using social cognitive career theory as a framework, we examined the longitudinal effects of proximal parental contextual influences on career aspirations and actions in a collectivist context. We used a sample of 954 Indonesian high school students and measured parental career expectations, adolescent‐parent career congruence, self‐efficacy, outcome expectations, career aspirations, planning and exploration, twice, 6 months apart. The best‐fitti…
Coping with medical training demands: Thinking of Dropping Out, or in It for the Long Haul
Medical trainees are at risk of psychological distress due to training workload demands. Dropping out of medicine has hidden and real costs to both the public and the individual. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this study assessed differences in stress and coping strategies between those serious and not serious about dropping out of medicine. A total of 854 medical students and junior doctors completed a web-based survey assessi…
An Identity Control Theory Approach to Managing Career Identity in Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood provides an extended period during which potential career identities can be explored and feedback obtained before making a commitment. We tested an identity control theory model of the self-regulatory responses that emerging adults might make to negative feedback regarding their career identity. We surveyed 335 Australian emerging adults (mean age 19.28 years; 64% male) on negative career-related feedback, career-related goal d…
The relationship between meritocratic beliefs and career outcomes: The moderating role of socioeconomic status
Recovery resources mediate between work-study boundary congruence and wellbeing and engagement in tertiary students
It is important for individuals to manage the boundaries between their different roles as this affects their personal functioning and wellbeing. Little is known, however, about how students manage their role boundaries between work and study. We tested a work-study boundary congruence model, in which student boundary congruence (i.e. the correspondence between students’ boundary preferences and their boundary constraints) was associated with stud…
Career Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in Young Adults: The Role of Financial Distress
Informed by goal-setting/self-regulatory theories, we tested the mediating role of career-related effort (i.e., goal striving) in the relationships between career-related indecision (i.e., goal ambiguity) and career-related stress (i.e., affect) and perceived employability (i.e., career-related attitude) and examined the effect of financial distress as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Using a sample of 202 young adults ( M …
The Discrepancies Between Individual-Set and Parent-Set Career Goals Scale: Development and Initial Validation
As there was no existing, psychometrically sound scale that directly assessed the discrepancies that young people experience between individual-set career goals and parent-set career goals, we developed and provided initial validation for a 15-item scale for use with young adults. In Study 1, items were developed, reviewed by experts, and administered to a sample of first year, undergraduate Indonesian students ( N = 426, M age = 18.42 years). We…
Psychology (38 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Career Development and Diversity (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)