Emotional self‐efficacy, graduate employability, and career satisfaction: Testing the associations

Pool, Lorraine Dacre; Qualter, Pamela

doi:10.1111/ajpy.12023

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“…In addition, we found evidence for the hypothesised mediating effect of employability activities () and professional commitment () on the relationship between career attitudes and career success. Concerning employability, previous research already spoke in favour of its mediating effect in the relationships between self‐efficacy and career satisfaction (Dacre Pool & Qualter, ) and between core self‐evaluations and job search behaviours (Onyishi, Enwereuzor, Ituma, & Omenma, ). This confirms and reinforces the role that employability activities play, both directly and indirectly, in achieving a broad array of positive career outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Are freelancers a breed apart? The role of protean and boundaryless career attitudes in employability and career success

Presti¹,

Pluviano

Briscoe

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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Recent economic and organisational changes have fostered an increasing diversification of the workforce, among whom freelancers are an under‐represented population in the literature. This study aimed at examining the role of protean and boundaryless career, professional commitment, and employability activities in fostering freelancers' subjective career success. Data were collected via an online survey among a sample of 425 Italian freelancers and analysed through structural equation modelling. Results partially confirmed several hypotheses: higher self‐directed career management and boundaryless mindset predicted higher employability activities and professional commitment; moreover, employability and professional commitment acted as mediators between career attitudes and subjective career success. The study provides support for the importance of such variables to freelancers' career success, as well as for the significance of protean and boundaryless careers among nontraditional occupational groups. Interventions aimed at fostering such attitudes could support freelancers in improving their attainment of professional progress and perception of career success.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are freelancers a breed apart? The role of protean and boundaryless career attitudes in employability and career success

Presti¹,

Pluviano

Briscoe

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…This is imperative given that studies (e.g. Dacre-Pool and Qualter, 2013) suggest that individuals predominantly act, based on their level of self perception of their capability and situation as opposed to objective reality of what they are actually able to do or achieve. Similarly, university career counsellors can help individuals with low CSE to become well-adjusted, positive minded, self-confident, efficacious, and believe that their job search activities will be fruitful in the end.…”

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The mediating role of perceived employability in the relationship between core self-evaluations and job search behaviour

Onyishi

Enwereuzor

Ituma

et al. 2015

Career Development International

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of perceived employability in the relationship between core self-evaluations (CSEs) and job search behaviour (preparatory and active job search). Design/methodology/approach – A cross-sectional survey data were obtained among a sample of 254 employed and unemployed graduate students from a university in Southeast Nigeria. Findings – Results of the hierarchical multiple regression show that CSEs was significantly and positively associated with only preparatory job search behaviour but not active job search behaviour. CSEs was positively associated with perceived employability. Perceived employability was positively associated with the preparatory job search but not active job search. Perceived employability also mediated the relationship between CSEs and preparatory job search but failed to mediate the relationship between CSEs and active job search. Research limitations/implications – The study makes important contribution to the literature on job search by augmenting our understanding on the mechanism that govern core self-evaluation and job search behaviour relationship. Practical implications – Human resources practitioners can use the insights of the present study in understanding aspects of jobseekers’ personality and perception that may be relevant in job search behaviour. The study has also implications for career development practice especially in the areas of counselling of job seekers in environments where there is high level of unemployment. Originality/value – There has been rarely any previous attempt at investigating the possibility that the relationship between CSEs and job search behaviour is mediated by perceived employability.

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“…For example, assessment of ability emotional intelligence may involve asking respondents to look at photographs of faces and interpret which emotion is being displayed, while assessment of trait emotional intelligence may involve asking participants to rate themselves on how well they are generally able to understand the emotions of others by looking at their facial expression. Trait emotional intelligence is associated with various indices of health and well‐being (Dacre Pool & Qualter, ; Downey, Johnston, Hansen, Birney, & Stough, ; Martins, Ramalho, & Morin, ; Schutte et al., ). Individuals with higher emotional intelligence assessed as an ability through performance measures experience less acute pain (Ruiz‐Aranda, Salguero, & Fernandez‐Berrocal, ) and those with higher trait emotional intelligence, assessed by self‐report of typical functioning, report a lower frequency of symptoms of pain (Mavroveli, Petrides, & Rieffe, ).…”

Section: Emotional Intelligence and Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship between greater mindfulness and less subjective experience of chronic pain: Mediating functions of pain management self‐efficacy and emotional intelligence

Wright

Schutte

2014

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Previous research shows a connection between greater mindfulness and less subjective experience of pain. The present study examined whether pain management self-efficacy and emotional intelligence mediate this relationship in individuals experiencing chronic pain. Two hundred participants experiencing chronic pain completed measures of mindfulness, experience of pain, pain management self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence. Greater mindfulness was associated with less subjective experience of pain, greater pain management self-efficacy, and more emotional intelligence. More pain management self-efficacy and higher emotional intelligence were associated with less subjective experience of pain. Emotional intelligence and pain management self-efficacy significantly mediated the relationship between mindfulness and pain. The connection between greater mindfulness and less subjective experience of pain may be due to mindfulness providing a foundation for emotional functioning and behavioural regulation that result in reductions in the experience of pain.

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Emotional self‐efficacy, graduate employability, and career satisfaction: Testing the associations

Cited by 98 publications

References 49 publications

Are freelancers a breed apart? The role of protean and boundaryless career attitudes in employability and career success

Are freelancers a breed apart? The role of protean and boundaryless career attitudes in employability and career success

The mediating role of perceived employability in the relationship between core self-evaluations and job search behaviour

The relationship between greater mindfulness and less subjective experience of chronic pain: Mediating functions of pain management self‐efficacy and emotional intelligence

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