From Adaptive Readiness to Adaptation Results: Implementation of Student Career Construction Inventory and Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation

Abstract

This study evaluates the empirical applicability of the career construction model of adaptation (CCMA) by collecting evidence about the validity of the Student Career Construction Inventory (SCCI) from a sample of Turkish high school students and examining the relations between adaptive readiness, adaptability resources, adapting responses, and adaptation results. To test the model, we conducted two studies with samples of high school students in Ankara, Turkey ( n 1 = 251; n 2 = 694). In the first study, the SCCI was translated into Turkish and psychometric properties of the inventory were assessed. To validate the four-factor structure of the SCCI Turkish High School Form, two different levels of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were applied to 251 participants. The results of CFA demonstrated that the data for the SCCI Turkish high school sample fit the theoretical model very well. The internal consistency of the SCCI was determined as 0.72 for crystallizing, 0.75 for exploring, 0.85 for deciding, 0.73 for preparing, and 0.90 for the total. In the second study, the CCMA, consisting of four dimensions (adaptive readiness, adaptability resources, adapting responses, and adaptation results), was empirically tested by using the SCCI, which had been tested for validity in the first study. The results of serial mediation analysis supported the CCMA, indicating that adaptive readiness indirectly influenced adaptability resources, adapting responses, and adaptation results.

How do individual factors affect career sustainability? An investigation of cascading effects through the career construction model of adaptation

“…In addition, past studies used CCMA as a theoretical framework designated adaptation results with well-being (Tokar et al. , 2020), happiness (Öztemel and Akyol, 2021), life satisfaction (Ochoco and Ty, 2021), academic satisfaction (Nilforooshan, 2020) and employment (Guan et al. , 2014).…”

“…Third, we also contribute to integrating research on career construction theory with the sustainable career framework by revealing the linkage between the career construction model of adaptation and career sustainability. In addition, past studies used CCMA as a theoretical framework designated adaptation results with well-being (Tokar et al, 2020), happiness ( € Oztemel and Akyol, 2021), life satisfaction (Ochoco and Ty, 2021), academic satisfaction (Nilforooshan, 2020) and employment (Guan et al, 2014). In the current study, we used career sustainability as an indicator for adaptation results, a composite indicator of health, happiness, and productivity.…”

“…While recent studies used CCMA as a theoretical framework partially and more often on student populations (e.g. Nilforooshan, 2020;Ochoco and Ty, 2021;€ Oztemel and Akyol, 2021), this study tests the complete model on full-time working professionals to advance its applicability from entry-level career issues to subsequent career development and sustainability challenges.…”

“…Such an investigation is essential to advance careers literature that reaffirms the importance of agency factors in contemporary career management and building a sustainable career. Second, the CCMA is often investigated partially ( € Oztemel and Akyol, 2021), restricting the advancement of careers literature and offering limited insights. We contribute to career construction theory by deploying the complete model of CCMA to showcase the interplay between the core elements of the adaptation cycle, such as proactive personality, career adaptability and proactive career behaviors in achieving positive career outcomes.…”

University students’ career adaptability as a mediator between cognitive emotion regulation and career decision-making self-efficacy

“…In Nilforooshan’s (2020) study which conducted a multiple mediation model to test the career construction model of adaptation, CA was found to play the mediating role between future work self and proactivity as adaptivity and career decision self-efficacy and career engagement as adaptive responses. Öztemel and Akyol (2021) also found that CA had a mediating effect on self-esteem and career construction behavior.…”