Self-esteem and proactive personality as predictors of future work self and career adaptability: An examination of mediating and moderating processes

Personal and social aspects of professional identity.

“…Researches on professional identity showed similar results (Crocetti et al, 2011;Porfeli et al, 2011). Other studies conducted on college and university students have also demonstrated that self-efficacy and self-esteem were positively associated with career decidedness (Hirschi, 2009) and career exploration (Cai et al, 2014;Lucas, 1997); that they predicted career commitment (Chung, 2002) and their internalization (Stringer & Kerpelman, 2010); that they were longitudinally associated with in-depth career exploration (Porfeli & Skorikov, 2010); and that they were associated with future work self and career adaptability (Cai et al, 2014). In line with this literature, we hypothesized:…”

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

“…It was also found that career adaptability had positive relationship BIS/BAS and Career Exploration 7 with career exploration, although the causal relationship has yet been established (e.g., Cai et al, 2015;Guan et al, 2015). We argue that two dimensions of career adaptability, namely career concern and career curiosity, may be particularly important in predicting career exploration.…”

“…Career exploration was measured with the Chinese version (Cai et al, 2015;Guan et al, 2015), which was based on the two original subscales (5 items for self exploration and 6 items for environmental exploration) from the Career Exploration Survey (Stumpf et al, 1983). The survey asks questions about individuals' career exploration behavior in the past three months, so it is a good measure of the adapting dimension in the theoretical model being tested.…”

Predicting Chinese human resource managers' strategic competence: Roles of identity, career variety, organizational support and career adaptability

“…Previous research has established that the salience of individuals' future work selves , and their personality serve as important predictors of career adaptability (Cai, Guan, Li, Shi, Guo, Liu et al, 2015;Li, Guan, Wang, Zhou, Guo, Jiang et al, 2015).…”