“…Following this step, scholars associate motives with people's public sector choice/preference. A line of research focuses on incumbent public servants (Buelens & Van den Broeck, 2007;Bullock, Stritch, & Rainey, 2015;Jaskyte, 2014;Lyons, Duxbury, & Higgins, 2006), but this approach may be biased by socialization effects such as sunk cost, 'reality shock' by negative bureaucracy (Kjeldsen & Jacobsen, 2013), as well as selfpersuasion (Giauque, Ritz, Varone, & Anderfuhren-Biget, 2012). Recently, a few scholars target university students (Christensen & Wright, 2011;Clerkin & Coggburn, 2012;Ko & Jun, 2015;Liu, Hui, Hu, Yang, & Yu, 2011;Rose, 2013;Winter & Thaler, 2016) and individuals who switch sectors (Bozeman & Ponomariov, 2009;Hansen, 2014).…”