Career cognition and career intention among general practitioners in China: The mediating effect of income expectation and career identity / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

By taking doctors looking for a job in a certain city of Shandong Province as the research object, this paper to explore the career cognition influence path and degree of career intention among general practitioners.After building a general practitioners' career cognition and intention analysis framework, and conducting random sampling among doctors, this paper uses factor analysis to obtain factor scores and adopts structural equation model to conduct analysis and verification, by taking career cognition as independent variables, career identity and income expectation as intermediary variables, career intention as dependant variables.The empirical results show that the career cognition affects income expectation, which in turn affects career recognition, and the indirect effect on career intention is ultimately also significant.In practice, as these results help to understand the relationship between these variables, the government should consider the impacts of policy on career cognition among general practitioners when formulating policies.