Personal and Situational Variables, and Career Concerns: Predicting Career Adaptability in Young Adults

Abstract

This study examined relationships among career adaptability and career concerns, social support and goal orientation. We surveyed 304 university students using measures of career concerns, adaptability (career planning, career exploration, self-exploration, decision-making, self-regulation), goal-orientation (learning, performance-prove, performance-avoid) and social support (family, friends, significant others). Multiple regression analysis revealed career concerns, learning and performance-prove goal orientations emerged relatively as the most important contributors. Other variables did not contribute significantly.

Evaluation of a Goal Orientation Model of Vocational Identity

“…Career exploration has been found to be associated positively with mastery and performance approach in children and young adults, although not consistently (Creed et al, 2009;Creed, Buys, Tilbury, & Crawford, 2013;Yousefi, Abedi, Baghban, Eatemadi, & Abedi, 2011), and stronger correlations have been found for mastery approach than for performance approach (Creed et al, 2009). Career exploration has been found to be associated positively with mastery and performance approach in children and young adults, although not consistently (Creed et al, 2009;Creed, Buys, Tilbury, & Crawford, 2013;Yousefi, Abedi, Baghban, Eatemadi, & Abedi, 2011), and stronger correlations have been found for mastery approach than for performance approach (Creed et al, 2009).…”

“…Not all of these relationships have been tested in the career domain; thus, our propositions here are somewhat exploratory. Career exploration has been found to be associated positively with mastery and performance approach in children and young adults, although not consistently (Creed et al, 2009;Creed, Buys, Tilbury, & Crawford, 2013;Yousefi, Abedi, Baghban, Eatemadi, & Abedi, 2011), and stronger correlations have been found for mastery approach than for performance approach (Creed et al, 2009). For performance avoidance, studies have found exploration to be both unrelated (Creed et al, 2013;Yousefi et al, 2011) and negatively related (Creed et al, 2009).…”

Career Adaptability of Vocational Education and Training Graduates in the Period of Prospective School-to-Work Transition

“…However, each predictor contributes uniquely to the prediction of career adaptability components. Overall career adaptability is predicted by cognitive ability, the Big Five personality traits (Rudolph et al, 2017), future temporal focus (Zacher, 2014), a proactive personality (Guan et al, 2017;Jiang, 2017), positive emotional disposition (Hirschi, 2009), motivation (Pouyaud, Vignoli, Dosnon, & Lallemand, 2012), explicit and implicit self-esteem (Hui, Yuen, & Chen, 2018;Negru-Subtirica & Pop, 2016;Cai et al, 2015;Rusu, Măirean, Hojbotă, Gherasima, & Gavriloaiei, 2015), core self-evaluation (Guan et al, 2017;Neureiter & Traut-Mattausch, 2017;Zacher, 2014), career self-efficacy, personal goal orientation, and career future concern (Ebenehi, Rashid, & Bakar, 2016;Wang & Fu, 2015), and learning goal orientation (Guan et al, 2017;Yousefi, Abedi, Baghban, Eatemadi, & Abedi, 2011).…”

A Study of Career Adaptability and Career Planning of Faculty of Education Students of Universitas Negeri Malang

“…Generally it can be explained that the student of faculty of education student have medium career adaptability specially in career concern [4] and longterm orientation and a feeling of optimism as professional workers are also in the medium category. Though low concern can lead to pessimism career will be successful in the future.…”

“…Career concern regarding to awareness of one's career his future as a professional [4]. Career concern also associated with long-term orientation and a feeling of optimism as workers.…”