Keyes, Kyal J. (2024) The Impacts of Cumulative Harm on Career Calling: How Childhood Trauma Affects Career Vocation. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
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The study seeks to improve understanding of the impacts of childhood trauma on future direction in life. This study investigates the Cumulative Harm Impact Questionnaire (CHIQ) by looking at the relationships of its subfactors with the Brief Calling Scale (BCS). It seeks to identify the relationship that cumulative harm has with career calling, through observing unique contributions of the factors and the joint contribution using a regression model. The independent variables are subfactors of the CHIQ, including accumulation of harm, identity, fit, and meaning making, which are measured against the dependent variable of vocation, as measured by the BCS. The research uses archival data from the original study that formulated the CHIQ and analyses this data using regression models and a correlation matrix. The participants were originally sourced from helping professionals or those who were studying to become helping professionals. It found there were significant relationships between most factors except between accumulation of harm and vocation (r = .069, p = .192). When the data was observed using a regression, accumulation of harm became significant (β = -.156, p = .048, 95% CI = (-.750, -.004)), indicating the possibility of mediating factors. The impacts of these findings necessitate further development of the CHIQ, to understand the relationship between factors. It also indicates the need for further research into mediating factors that can impact future direction for individuals who have experienced cumulative harm.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current – Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Wellbeing (1 Jan 2022 -) |
| Supervisors: | Prof. Beccaria, Gavin; Dr. Bryce, India |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2026 03:22 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2026 03:22 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | calling, career, childhood, harm, meaning |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1701 Psychology > 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5203 Clinical and health psychology > 520304 Health psychology |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/53094 |
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