Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a conceptual and empirical investigation

No Thumbnail Available
Authors
Hirschi, Andreas
Keller, Anita
Author (Corporation)
Publication date
04/2015
Typ of student thesis
Course of study
Type
01A - Journal article
Editors
Editor (Corporation)
Supervisor
Parent work
Journal of Vocational Behavior
Special issue
DOI of the original publication
Link
Series
Series number
Volume
87
Issue / Number
Pages / Duration
1-10
Patent number
Publisher / Publishing institution
Elsevier
Place of publication / Event location
Edition
Version
Programming language
Assignee
Practice partner / Client
Abstract
The literature on career adaptation is vast and based on a range of different measurement approaches. The present paper aims to explore how different operationalizations of career adaptability in terms of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence are related from a conceptual and empirical standpoint. Based on a cross-sectional analysis with 1260 German university students, we established that the adaptability resources of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence are significantly related to, but empirically distinct from, measures representing adapting in terms of career planning, career decision-making difficulties, career exploration, and occupational selfefficacy. In a follow-up survey six months later, we found that the career adaptability dimensions partially mediated the effects of adaptivity (i.e., core self-evaluations and proactivity) on planning, decision-making difficulties, exploration, and self-efficacy. Interestingly, in both analyses, there was no clear match between adaptability resources and theoretically corresponding aspects of career adapting in terms of behaviors, beliefs, and barriers. The results suggest that psychological career resources in terms of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence partially mediate the effects of more context-general, trait-like adaptivity on different career-specific behavioral forms of adapting.
Keywords
Subject (DDC)
150 - Psychologie
Project
Event
Exhibition start date
Exhibition end date
Conference start date
Conference end date
Date of the last check
ISBN
ISSN
0001-8791
1095-9084
Language
English
Created during FHNW affiliation
Yes
Strategic action fields FHNW
Publication status
Published
Review
Peer review of the complete publication
Open access category
License
Citation
HERRMANN, Anne, Andreas HIRSCHI und Anita KELLER, 2015. Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: a conceptual and empirical investigation. Journal of Vocational Behavior. April 2015. Bd. 87, S. 1–10. DOI 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.11.008. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/11654/5063