Mediating Model of College Students’ Proactive Personality and Career Adaptability

Abstract

College is a key period for students' specialty study and development, and an important stage of career exploration. We examined the relationship between proactive personality, career adaptability, and perceived social support and specialty identity among 610 Chinese college students. The mediating effect of perceived social support was greater than that of specialty identity. Therefore, providing more social support to college students may be more conducive to increasing their career adaptability. The chain intermediary effect of perceived social support indicated that specialty identity is also significant. Thus, college students with a more proactive personality can perceive more emotional support and study harder, thereby increasing their specialty identity and career adaptability. Results of this study can help guide universities in offering courses and activities that promote students' career adaptability with perceived social support and specialty identity in mind. Results also provide a model for future study of the influence of proactive personality on college student career adaptability.

A karrierút és a személyiségjegyek kapcsolata : Szisztematikus szakirodalmi áttekintés

“…Magában foglalja a változó feladatokhoz való alkalmazkodás képességét, a folyamatos önképzésben való részvételt és a karrier irányának szabályozását (Savickas & Savickas, 2017). A karrier-alkalmazkodóképesség nagyobb fokú felkészültséggel és megküzdési képességgel jár együtt a kiszámítható tanulási feladatok vagy a kiszámíthatatlan problémák vonatkozásában (Hu et al, 2021). A proaktív személyiség összefügg az önkezdeményezéssel, vagyis a proaktív munkavállaló előre látja és képes megelőzni a problémákat.…”

Future Work Self Salience and Future Time Perspective as Serial Mediators Between Proactive Personality and Career Adaptability

“…In previous studies, career adaptability is positively related to proactive personality ( Guan et al, 2014 ; Taber and Blankemeyer, 2015 ). Some studies show that proactive personality can predict an individual’s career adaptability ( Uy et al, 2015 ; Hu et al, 2021 ). The study by Green and Batool (2017) shows that proactive personality is significantly related to all four adapting responses and supports the proposed significance of proactivity for today’s vocational environment with regard to career adaptability resources and adapting responses.…”

“…Some researchers think proactive personality is an important psychological resource in the college-to-career transition (e.g., Erdogan and Bauer, 2005 ; Brown et al, 2006 ). Many studies have also identified a positive relationship between proactive personality and career adaptability ( Tolentino et al, 2014 ; Cai et al, 2015 ; Jiang, 2017 ; Hu et al, 2021 ) because it represents an internal motivation and behavioral tendency to spontaneously seek breakthroughs without being constrained by situational resistance. For example, Jiang (2017) finds that Proactive personality (PP) is positively related to career adaptability (CA), and PP has a stronger indirect effect on CA via thriving for less proactive workers.…”

The influence of motivation, self-efficacy, and fear of failure on the career adaptability of vocational school students: Moderated by meaning in life

“…Regarding CA, past studies have focused on general company employees ( AlKhemeiri et al, 2020 ; Omar and Tajudeen, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2021 ), student veterans or veterans ( Ghosh and Fouad, 2018 ; Ghosh et al, 2019 ; Becker et al, 2022 ), college students ( Gregor et al, 2021 ; Hu et al, 2021 ; Kim and Smith, 2021 ), high school students ( Dostanić et al, 2021 ), adolescent groups ( Liang et al, 2020 ; Bacanli and Sarsikoğlu, 2021 ), and working women ( Takawira, 2020 ), and have revealed that the target population is very diverse and represents the importance of research on CA.…”

“…In the past, most of these studies focused on students’ parental behaviors, expectations of students, and caring support ( Liang et al, 2020 ; Parola and Marcionetti, 2021 ; Nikander et al, 2022 ). External variables, or students’ internal personality traits and active personality ( Bacanli and Sarsikoğlu, 2021 ; Hu et al, 2021 ; Chang and Liu, 2022 ) have been less frequently explored in terms of MT, SE, and other intrinsic subjective drivers that are at the core of a person’s being from a self-deterministic perspective.…”