Career Wellbeing and Career Agility as Coping Attributes in the Modern Career Space

Exploring the construct validity of the Career Well-being Scale for its potential application as a career development tool in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic career space

“…As shown in Figure 1, Coetzee et al (2020) developed the CWS as a domain-specific multidimensional measure of career well-being comprising three facets: positive affective career state, state of career meaningfulness, and career networking/social support state (Coetzee, 2021a). The CWS is seen to measure state-like aspects of career well-being that may be relatively susceptible to change or modification through career development intervention (Coetzee, 2021a). The multidimensional feature of the CWS captures both the hedonic (i.e.…”

“…As illustrated in Figure 1, the CWS measures clients' positive affective career state as a hedonic subjective facet of career well-being. The CWS also measures eudaimonic facets of well-being relating to clients' psychological feelings of career meaningfulness and self-efficacy in receiving social support in their careers (Coetzee, 2021a). Well-being scholars advocate the combination of hedonic and eudaimonic facets in a measure of well-being (Lent & Brown, 2008;Marsh et al, 2020).…”

“…In agreement with the arguments of Lent and Brown (2008), the CWS's basic proposition is that by feeling supported in achieving goals and making career progress, and feeling that one has the social networks, resources, skills and experience needed to find new employment, accompany feelings that the chosen career is interesting, valuable and meaningful, and that it contributes to a bigger life purpose. These intrinsic positive socio-emotional psychological states represent self-concordant autonomous career motives that engender feelings of general career wellbeing (Coetzee, 2021a). In this regard, general career well-being alludes to a longterm psychological state of subjective well-being generated by individuals' current career situation in lieu of the anticipated future career context (Coetzee, 2021a).…”

“…These intrinsic positive socio-emotional psychological states represent self-concordant autonomous career motives that engender feelings of general career wellbeing (Coetzee, 2021a). In this regard, general career well-being alludes to a longterm psychological state of subjective well-being generated by individuals' current career situation in lieu of the anticipated future career context (Coetzee, 2021a).…”

“…The career development of people is a deep-seated psychological need for personal growth and development along with the basic need for decent work to make a meaningful contribution to society at large and to improve the basic economic living conditions of one's life and family (Coetzee & Schreuder, 2021). The challenge and opportunity for professional career practitioners are to help clients to cultivate a sense of career well-being amidst stressful anxietyprovoking circumstances that affect the perceived future of their careers and livelihood (Coetzee et al, 2021a).…”