Future orientation, resilience and vocational identity in southern Italian adolescents

Courage, Career Adaptability, and Readiness as Resources to Improve Well-Being during the University-to-Work Transition in Italy

“…The development of career-related psychological resources combined with courageous behavior enhances well-being. As courage has been found to play the role of a protective factor to face various risky and stressful situations, also in career-related tasks [ 22 ], it has the power to reduce negative emotions, which can negatively affect life satisfaction [ 23 , 24 ] and well-being [ 25 ]. Our results align with other studies conducted using the Life Design paradigm: Ginevra and colleagues [ 2 ], for example, found a partial mediating role of courage in the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction, using a sample of adolescents.…”

“…Courage has been found to play the role of a protective factor to face risky situations, to cope with stressful conditions, to make career choices, and to plan career paths despite current fears [ 22 ]. It has the power to reduce negative emotions, such as discomfort and apprehension, that can negatively affect life satisfaction [ 23 , 24 ] and well-being [ 25 ]. Ginevra et al [ 26 ] stated that courage can be defined as “an adaptive behavior to cope with career development tasks and changing work and career conditions and for promoting life satisfaction” [ 26 ] (p. 459).…”

Factor Structure of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) in University, Liberal Arts, and Community College Students

“…The subscale scores’ results have also shown adequate evidence of convergent validity such that the commitment and exploration scales correlated significantly and positively with career and well-being measures, whereas the reconsideration scales correlated significantly and negatively with similar measures. For example, the two commitment scales and exploration in-depth correlated positively, and the two reconsideration scales correlated negatively, with future orientation and resilience in Italian adolescents and career adaptability in American high school, college, and graduate students (Fusco et al, 2019; Savickas et al, 2018). Additionally, the two commitment and two exploration scales correlated positively, and career self-doubt correlated negatively, with career exploration self-efficacy and talent development self-efficacy in Chinese technical college students (Zhang et al, 2019).…”

“…The subscale scores have shown evidence of adequate to strong reliability and validity. For example, Cronbach’s α levels for the six subscales have consistently been above .70 (e.g., Fusco et al, 2019; Porfeli et al, 2011; Zhang et al, 2019). The six-factor structure has been shown to be invariant at the metric level across American high school and college students (Porfeli et al, 2011) and at the partial scalar level across American and Korean college students (Kim et al, 2019).…”

“…The VISA has been used by many researchers investigating the relation of vocational identity to career, academic, and psychological well-being variables (e.g., Chamandy & Gaudreau, 2019;Fusco et al, 2019;Lee et al, 2018;Porfeli & Savickas, 2012;Rhee et al, 2016;Savickas et al, 2018;Weigold et al, 2013). Researchers have often used the six subscales in their analyses, often selecting a subset for their purposes.…”