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The role of the internship in career decision-making for TRSM students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of the internship in career decision-making for TRSM students./
Author:	Odio, Michael Alexander.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2013,
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International75-12A.
Subject:	Sports Management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3586629
ISBN:	9781303822698

The role of the internship in career decision-making for TRSM students.
Odio, Michael Alexander.

The role of the internship in career decision-making for TRSM students. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013 - 134 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The internship has become ubiquitous within the TRSM industry (King, 2009) and educational curriculum (Eagleman & McNary, 2010). Although the internship experience is generally recognized for their educational and career-related benefits (Gault, Leach, & Duey, 2010), scholars are beginning to question the merit and expected benefits of undergraduate internships in TRSM (King, 2009; Schneider & Stier, 2006). Recent research has even found evidence that the internship experience may negatively influence TRSM students' intent to enter the profession (Cunningham, Sagas, Dixon, Kent, & Turner, 2005). This troubling finding has ramifications for TRSM students, educators and practitioners as all depend on the internship to a varying extent. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how the decision-making process of TRSM students is influenced by the internship experience and to determine to what extent certain characteristics of the internship influence students' intent to enter the profession. Study 1 applied image theory (Beach, 1990) and the unfolding model of voluntary turnover (Lee & Mitchell, 1994) through pre and post internship interviews to capture the composition of 11 TRSM students' decision frame prior to the internship and any changes that may have occurred during the time of the internship. The findings of Study 1 reveal varying levels of uncertainty in students' career plans both before and after the internship; most of the participants claimed the internship helped them learn more about what they did and did not want to do during their career, though some came away with even less certainty about their future. Study 2 used pre and post internship questionnaire data collected from (n=153) TRSM interns at two universities. Results indicate that challenge, supervisor support and role conflict are significant predictors of internship satisfaction while role ambiguity and learning opportunities are not. Internship satisfaction was a significant predictor of affective commitment to the vocation, which in turn influenced students' intent to enter the profession. This provides substantial evidence that the internship experience has a meaningful influence on students' career decision-making. Shocks, or specific critical events that occurred during the internship, appeared to be responsible for minor changes in students' decision-making in Study 1, but only a certain type of shock (i.e., discontinuation) was found to be a significant predictor of intent in Study 2.

ISBN: 9781303822698Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122869
Sports Management.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Career decisions

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