Career Adaptability Profiles and Their Relations With Emotional and Decision-Making Correlates Among Belgian Undergraduate Students

Abstract

This study used a person-centered approach to investigate university students’ profiles of career adaptability and determine whether different combinations of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence could be identified. We also explored the relations of these profiles with emotional intelligence, anticipatory emotions, and career decision-making self-efficacy. We found six distinct profiles of career adaptability among 307 university students who differed both on their level and on shape. Emotional intelligence was associated with profiles displaying higher levels of career adaptability. Furthermore, profiles of career adaptability significantly displayed differences in terms of positive anticipatory emotions at the prospect of the school-to-work transition and career decision-making self-efficacy but not in terms of negative anticipatory emotions. These results highlight that differentiating profiles of career adaptability provide insights for the design and the implementation of career-related interventions among university students.

A network approach to the relationship between career adaptability and starting salary among graduates

“…These results suggest that the effect on starting salary might depend on the interaction of specific career adaptability indicators. However, past research has typically focused on global career adaptability (Parmentier et al, 2021 ), or used the four career adaptability resources to explain a range of outcomes (e.g., Rudolph et al, 2017 ), with few studies examining the structural pathways between the specific core resources of career adaptability (e.g., Haenggli & Hirschi 2020 ). As a result, the structural pathways between different career adaptability resources and their unique impact on starting salary remain unclear.…”

“…However, this focus overlooked the internal combination of the unique characteristics of career adaptability. In other words, they fail to capture how the specific resources of career adaptability fit together, including the patterns and interactions they combine (Parmentier et al, 2021 ). As a result, the structural pathways among the components of career adaptability, which cut across the boundaries of the different dimensions, are not reflected in traditional latent variable models.…”

Perfiles de Toma de Decisiones Académico-Profesionales en Estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

“…Los estudios de Hirschi y Valero (2015), Perera y McIlveen (2017) y Parmentier et al (2021 muestran que en una misma población de estudiantes pueden existir diferentes perfiles en la gestión de sus carreras. Dichos perfiles se relacionan con determinadas características vocacionales, sociofamiliares y académicas del alumnado, las cuales contribuyen a desarrollar o mejorar los recursos de la AC (Johnstone, 2018).…”

The role of social media engagement and emotional intelligence in successful employment

“…In this regard, a growing body of research is looking into emotional intelligence in the workplace (e.g. Parmentier et al ., 2021; Phang et al ., 2018) amidst the rise of social media platforms' popularity (Chavarría et al ., 2021; Trivelli and Morel, 2021) and potential effects on employees performance in generationally-diverse organisations and societies (Mahmoud et al ., 2020a, c, 2021a, 2022b). Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to an individual's cognitive ability to maximise the emotional perspective of others and themselves (Nelis et al ., 2009).…”