Career adaptability, resilience, and life satisfaction: A mediational analysis in a sample of parents of children with mild intellectual disability

Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Maggio, Ilaria Di; Santilli, Sara; Sgaramella, Teresa Maria; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore

doi:10.3109/13668250.2017.1293236

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“…In a study, parents of children with autism were found to be significantly lower in terms of social support and life satisfaction than the control group (Lu et al, 2015, 2018). Studies have shown that families with disabled children who are better able to cope with stressful care demands, who can look positively to difficulties and who have positive thinking generally have better quality of life and satisfaction (Ginevra et al, 2018; Izani-Uzair et al, 2015). When satisfaction with life is considered an important indicator of mental health (Matud et al, 2014), the absence of depression symptoms in our study may have positively affected satisfaction with the life score.…”

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“…It is important to identify problem areas of parents with mentally disabled children, to support them, to address their stress sources and to effectively cope with them. In literature, it has been shown that the training and counseling provided to families with disabled children are useful in coping with stress and improving life satisfaction, in decreasing stress level and in decreasing depression symptoms (Bilge et al, 2014; Ginevra et al, 2018; Gordeles-Beser & Inci, 2014). In a study examining the effectiveness of ‘coping with stress and increasing life satisfaction’ training given to relatives of individuals with disabilities once a week for 3 weeks and in 1-hour sessions, it was found that post-training stress levels of participants decreased and their life satisfaction increased, yet there was no significant difference between them (Bilge et al, 2014).…”

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“…All these psychological processes also affect the satisfaction of family members (Bilge et al, 2014). Studies have shown that parents with mentally disabled child have lower levels of life satisfaction than other parents (Ende-Ince & Guducu-Tufekci, 2015;Ginevra et al, 2018;Kucuk & Kucuk-Alemdar, 2018;Lu et al, 2015Lu et al, , 2018. In a study conducted to determine the difficulties and family burden of families with mentally disabled children, it is reported that families are under a great burden in terms of physical, emotional, social and economic aspects (Balci et al, 2019).…”

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The effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction self-stigma of seeking help depression and stress-coping styles

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Ucuk

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Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background: It is important to identify problem areas of parents with mentally disabled children, to support them, to address their stress sources and to effectively cope with them. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction, self-stigma of seeking help, depression and stress-coping styles. Material: Families with disabled children who continued their education at the Special Education Centers in Sivas created the sample of this pre- and post-test study (with control group). The data were collected with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Self-Stigma of Seeking Psychological Help Scale (SSPHS) and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ). The scales were re-applied to the experimental group ( n = 75) after the application of scales and 5-week training. Individuals in the control group were not given any training. The Mann–Whitney U test, t test and Kruskal–Wallis variance analysis were used in the evaluation of the data. Results: The mean SWLS score was 19.14 ± 7.24 (min: 3; max: 31) before the training and 21.68 ± 7.39 (min: 6; max: 35) after the training. The mean BDI score was 16.92 ± 10.84 (min: 1; max: 60) before the training and 10.24 ± 7.77 (min: 0; max: 33) after the training. The mean SSPHS score was 58.18 ± 9.96 (min: 32; max: 82) before the training and 52.65 ± 14.28 (min: 28; max: 84) after the training. The mean optimistic approach score of SSPHS was 9.73 ± 2.67 (min: 2; max: 15) before the training and 10.58 ± 2.19 (min: 4; max: 15) after the training. It was determined that the difference between mean scores of the control group before and after the training was not significant ( p > .05). Conclusion: The training has positively affected the decrease in depression and self-stigmatization, and the increase in life satisfaction and stress-coping styles after the training. It is recommended to plan research studies to identify the need for support of parents, and to structure the trainings to be given according to the results of the educational intervention researches.

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The effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction self-stigma of seeking help depression and stress-coping styles

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“…Despite these associations with multiple desirable job- and career-related indicators, career adaptability does not seem to benefit satisfaction with all life domains to the same extent and, in particular, with job satisfaction. Individuals with higher career adaptability are more satisfied with their life and report higher levels of general well-being than those with lower career adaptability (e.g., Hirschi, 2009; Maggiori et al, 2013; Ginevra et al, 2018). They are also more satisfied with their careers than others (e.g., Zacher, 2014; Haibo et al, 2018).…”

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Illustrating Instrumental Variable Regressions Using the Career Adaptability – Job Satisfaction Relationship

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This article illustrates instrumental variable (IV) estimation by examining an unexpected finding of the research on career adaptability and job satisfaction. Theoretical and empirical arguments suggest that in the general population, people’s abilities to adapt their careers are beneficial to their job satisfaction. However, a recent meta-analysis unexpectedly found no effect when personality traits are controlled for. We argue that a reverse effect of job satisfaction on career adaptability, originating from affective tendencies tied to personality, might explain this null effect. Our argument implies that the estimates obtained with traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions are biased by endogeneity, a correlation between an explanatory variable and the error term in a regression model. When experimental manipulations are impossible, IV estimations, such as two-stage least squares (2SLS) regressions, are one possible solution to the endogeneity problem. Analyzing three waves of data from a sample of 836 adults, the concurrent and time-lagged effect of job satisfaction on career adaptability was revealed to be more consistent than the reverse. Our results provide an explanation, rooted in affective dispositions, as to why recent meta-analytical estimates unexpectedly found that career adaptability does not predict job satisfaction at the interindividual level. We also discuss IV estimation in terms of its limits, weight the interpretation of its estimates against the temporality criterion for causal inference, and consider its possible extension to analyses of change.

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“…As an adaptive resource, career adaptability is a self-regulatory ability that one can use to solve unfamiliar, complex, and ill-defined problems arising from developmental career tasks, career transitions, and job trauma (Tolentino et al, 2014) [ 5 ]. Career adaptability enables individuals to broaden, improve, and ultimately realize self-concept in professional roles, thus creating a working life, bettering life satisfaction, and building a career framework (Porfeli & Savickas, 2012; Ginevra et al, 2018; Ginevra et al, 2017) [ 6 , 7 , 8 ].…”

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Career Adaptability Research: A Literature Review with Scientific Knowledge Mapping in Web of Science

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Fan

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With the rapid development of society and technology, personal adaptability is becoming more and more important. Learning how to adapt to a changing world is becoming one of the necessary conditions for success. Career adaptability can help individuals to smoothly adapt to changes when coping with their career roles, and maintain their ability to balance their career roles, which will affect their important psychological resources for career development and achieve more meaning in life. In recent years, career adaptability has gradually attracted the attention of researchers. Therefore, in order to explore the main factors, such as research focus, the main researchers, its evolution, and the important results of career adaptability in the last ten years, this study used the scientific knowledge mapping software CiteSpace as a research tool, and select related articles from the Web of Science between 2010 to 2020 under the theme of “career adaptability” for data analysis, which can help future researchers to understand current and future career adaptability research and control the research direction of career adaptability. The results of this research indicate that there are direct or indirect connections between different themes, such as the career adaptability scale, career construction, positive personalities, and so on, but few articles integrate multiple research topics. At the same time, the main researchers, research frontiers and network relationships were also obtained. Based on the above findings, the correlative main concept, theoretical structure, evolution, and research progress of career adaptability in the past ten years are discussed.

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Career adaptability, resilience, and life satisfaction: A mediational analysis in a sample of parents of children with mild intellectual disability

Cited by 35 publications

References 46 publications

The effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction self-stigma of seeking help depression and stress-coping styles

The effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction self-stigma of seeking help depression and stress-coping styles

Illustrating Instrumental Variable Regressions Using the Career Adaptability – Job Satisfaction Relationship

Career Adaptability Research: A Literature Review with Scientific Knowledge Mapping in Web of Science

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