Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: A conceptual and empirical investigation

By A. Hirschi, Anne Herrmann, Anita C. Keller. 2015

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The literature on career adaptation is vast and based on a range of different measurement approaches. The present paper aims to explore how different operationalizations of career adaptability in terms of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence are related from a conceptual and empirical standpoint. Based on a cross-sectional analysis with 1260 German university students, we established that the adaptability resources of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence are significantly related to, but empirically distinct from, measures representing adapting in terms of career planning, career decision-making difficulties, career exploration, and occupational self-efficacy. In a follow-up survey six months later, we found that the career adaptability dimensions partially mediated the effects of adaptivity (i.e., core self-evaluations and proactivity) on planning, decision-making difficulties, exploration, and self-efficacy. Interestingly, in both analyses, there was no clear match between adaptability resources and theoretically corresponding aspects of career adapting in terms of behaviors, beliefs, and barriers. The results suggest that psychological career resources in terms of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence partially mediate the effects of more context-general, trait-like adaptivity on different career-specific behavioral forms of adapting.

Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research

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Personal agency in newly arrived refugees: The role of personality, entrepreneurial cognitions and intentions, and career adaptability (2018, result): “This assumption received empirical support in a variety of studies in the normal population (Hirschi et al., 2015; Rudolph et al., 2017; Tolentino, Garcia, Lu, Restubog, Bordia, AC C EP TE D M AN U SC R IP T 15 & Plewa, 2014; Uy et al., 2015).”
Is the future still open? The mediating role of occupational future time perspective in the effects of career adaptability and aging experience on late career planning (2019, background): “And third, given that OFTP conceptually addresses primarily a question related to career concern, the finding resonates with earlier research (Hirschi et al., 2015; Van der Horst, Klehe, & Van der Heijden, 2017) showing that the four dimensions of the adaptation process (concern, control, curiosity,”
Linking dimensions of career adaptability to adaptation results: A meta-analysis (2017, background): “…Career Adaptability Although studies to-date have found notable intercorrelations among the four CAAS dimensions (e.g., ranging between .41 and .60, Hirschi et al., 2015; ranging between .53 and .69, Konstam, Celen-Demirtas, Tomek, & Sweeney, 2015), these relationships are not large enough to rule…”
Daily manifestations of career adaptability : Relationships with job and career outcomes (2015, neutral): “…closely related to control and confidence – self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, internal locus of control, and emotional stability (cf. Hirschi et al., 2015; Öncel, 2014; Zacher, 2014a) – are associated positively with task and career performance, as well as job and career…”
Modeling dynamics in career construction: Reciprocal relationship between future work self and career exploration (2017, methodology): “The sequential model from indicators of career adaptivity to adaptability and adapting behaviors has received much support from previous studies (Hirschi et al., 2013; Hirschi et al., 2015; Hirschi & Valero, 2015; Nilforooshan & Salimi, 2016; Perera & McIlveen, 2017; Rudolph et al., 2017).”
A Longitudinal Study of Relations Among Adolescents’ Self-Esteem, General Self-Efficacy, Career Adaptability, and Life Satisfaction (2019, background): “Moreover, this result further highlights the importance of conducting an analysis to investigate the differential effects of the four different career adaptability dimensions on specific outcomes (Hirschi et al., 2015).”
Career Preparedness Among Adolescents: A Review of Key Components and Directions for Future Research (2020, background): “Here, authors were clearly interested in the behavior of exploration in that measures asked, for example, whether individuals had actually engaged in an exploration behavior such as gathering information about interesting career paths (e.g., Hirschi et al., 2015).”