“…When young people appraise a career goal discrepancy, they experience a range of behavioural outcomes. These include lowered expectations, downward goal adjustment, and goal disengagement when discrepancies are negative (Creed et al, 2015, 2017; Hu et al, 2017), and upward goal revision when discrepancies are positive (Akmal et al, 2022). Past research found that career distress, which includes negative emotions of depression, anxiety, and despair (Creed et al, 2015), helped explain the relationships between negative career discrepancy and goal assimilation and goal accommodation, although a full explanation for what drives career goal adjustment in response to career-related discrepancy is yet to be clarified (Praskova & McPeake, 2021).…”