Career adapt-abilities scale — Netherlands form: Psychometric properties and relationships to ability, personality, and regulatory focus

Big-five personality and BIS/BAS traits as predictors of career exploration: The mediation role of career adaptability

“…Consistent with these arguments, van Vianen et al, (2012) reported that career adaptability was positively related to promotion focus (an indicator of approach orientation) and negatively related to prevention focus (an indicator of avoidance orientation).…”

“…On the one hand, career adaptability has its dispositional basis and has significant relationship with individual traits (Teixeira, Bardagi, Lassance, de Oliveira Magalhães, & Duarte, 2012;van Vianen, Klehe, Koen, & Dries, 2012). With regard to the big-five personality, previous research has demonstrated that career adaptability correlated positively with extroversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness (Teixeira et al, 2012;van Vianen et al, 2012).…”

The relation of career adaptability to satisfaction and turnover intentions

“…CA is also related to many work and life outcomes including CS and work engagement (Rossier et al, 2012), promotability (Tolentino et al, 2013), career-related skills (de Guzman & Ok, 2013;Guan et al, 2014), self-esteem (Van Vianen, Klehe, Koen, & Dries, 2012), career commitment , and quality of life, well-being, work stress, and career barriers (Johnston et al, 2013;Maggiori et al, 2013;Soresi, Nota, & Ferrari, 2012). In other words, an individual's adaptability comprises assets that enable an individual to solve unfamiliar, complex, and illdefined problems presented by vocational tasks, occupational transitions, and work traumas .…”

“…Further research is needed to determine the effect on actual turnover behavior using longitudinal design and multi-source data. Although there is no association between career adaptability and general mental ability (van Vianen et al, 2012), it is worth investigating this important individual characteristic to ascertain whether it exists with low-ranking employees.…”

Examination of the career and work adaptability levels of education faculty students and pedagogical formation education certificate programme students

“…Buna göre uyum kavramının, bir bütünün parçaları arasında bulunan uygunluk ve ahenk (Türk Dil Kurumu, 2006) şeklinde genel bir tanımı var olmakla birlikte, iş ve meslek hayatı açısından uyum olgusunun, insanların daha mutlu, daha verimli, daha pozitif olmaları adına hayatın her anında mutlaka olması gereken olgulardan biri olduğu ifade edilmektedir. Örneğin, bir ailedeki huzur, kişilerin çalışma ortamındaki verimlilik, herhangi bir sportif müsabakadaki başarı, bahsedilen bu yerlerdeki uyumla doğru orantılıdır (Saygılı, 2009).…”