Emerging Adults at Work and at Play: Leisure, Work Engagement, and Career Indecision

This study examined how college students’ levels of planned happenstance skills influenced the relationships among career engagement, career decision self‐efficacy, and career decision certainty. Moderated mediation analysis was used with a sample of 217 Korean undergraduate students. The results indicated that career decision self‐efficacy mediated the relationship between career engagement and career decision certainty. Moreover, the positive indirect effect of career engagement on career decision through career decision self‐efficacy was strengthened as the level of planned happenstance skills increased. In conclusion, college students’ career engagement strengthens their career decision certainty via career decision self‐efficacy when they have enough planned happenstance skills to discover unexpected career opportunities.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

A Moderated Mediation Model of Planned Happenstance Skills, Career Engagement, Career Decision Self‐Efficacy, and Career Decision Certainty

Kim

Jang

Jung

et al. 2014

“…Leisure activities provide a forum for individuals to develop competencies that inform vocational development (Evans & Poole, ), including the continuing development and refinement of social interaction skills, self‐identity, and self‐regulation skills (Silbereisen, Noack, & Eyferth, ). Furthermore, leisure provides opportunities for emerging adults to adapt maximally to a diversity of work environments (Konstam, ; Konstam & Lehmann, ). Unemployed emerging adults are deprived of opportunities to learn about themselves and benefit from these work‐related experiences (Armstrong & Rounds, ).…”

Section: Leisure As a Protective Factor For Camentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a similar study, Munson and Savickas () found that feeling effective, competent, and in control of leisure activities was related to having clearer ideas about occupational goals, interests, and talents; highly developed attitudes toward exploring the world of work; and greater competence related to career decision making among college students. Finally, Konstam and Lehmann () found that emerging adults who are indecisive about their careers reported significantly lower scores in leisure enjoyment, leisure competence, leisure control, and work engagement in comparison with emerging adults who reported a higher degree of career decisiveness.…”

Section: Leisure As a Protective Factor For Camentioning

confidence: 99%

Leisure Activities in Unemployed Emerging Adults: Links to Career Adaptability and Subjective Well‐Being

Celen-Demirtas

Konstam

Tomek

2015

Self Cite

The present study examined if frequency and quality of 3 types of leisure activities (i.e., relaxation, achievement, and social) can function as protective factors for subjective well-being (SWB) and career adaptability (CA) among 184 unemployed emerging adults (84 women, 100 men). Participants responded to measures of leisure frequency and quality, SWB, and CA. The results of a multivariate analysis of variance indicated that the frequency of relaxation, achievement, and social leisure activities had no effect on SWB and CA. However, regression analyses indicated that the quality of social leisure activities significantly predicted SWB and the quality of achievement and social leisure activities significantly predicted CA. The quality of relaxation leisure activities was not associated with SWB and CA. Findings indicate that counselors who work with unemployed emerging adults can use leisure activities to promote SWB and CA. Future research to better understand the role of leisure in well-being and career development among emerging adults is encouraged.

“…Regarding FGC students' career-related barriers, previous studies have reported that FGC students' perceived barriers in decision-making in math/science careers were negatively correlated with those students' intention and goals in pursuing math/science-related careers (Garriott et al, 2013). Previous studies have examined various antecedents of career decidedness among emerging adults, including vocational identity (Vondracek et al, 1995), leisure and work engagement (Konstam & Lehmann, 2011), career selfefficacy (Luzzo, 1996;Xu & Tracey, 2015), and career adaptability and future orientation (Ginevera et al, 2016). Although there is much evidence for the linkage between career-related barriers and career decision selfefficacy (e.g., Gnilka & Novakovic, 2017;Mejia-Smith & Gushue, 2017;Wright et al, 2014), only a few studies have examined the effect of college students' perceptions of career-related barriers on their decision-making in future occupations (Creed et al, 2004;Holland et al, 1980).…”

Section: Purpose Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived Career Barriers and Career Decidedness of First‐Generation College Students

Toyokawa

DeWald

2020

We examined the effects of perceived career barriers on career decidedness among first‐generation college (FGC) students (n = 149) and non‐FGC students (n = 182) at a 4‐year university (mean age = 19.3 years). Participants responded online to measures of perceived career barriers and career decidedness. Results indicated that FGC students scored higher on lack of support and lack of time and financial resources than non‐FGC students. For both groups, higher levels of perceived lack of skills were related to lower levels of career decidedness, whereas greater levels of family‐related responsibilities predicted higher levels of career decidedness. FGC student status moderated the association between perceived lack of time/financial resources and career decidedness. Further research is needed to investigate the differential effects of various domains of career barriers. Career counselors are advised to consider FGC students' perceived career barriers in guiding students' career exploration and decision‐making.