Career identity and the complex mediating relationships between career preparatory actions and career progress markers
By Anna Praskova, Peter A. Creed, Michelle Hood. 2015
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We tested a cross-sectional, moderated-mediation model of career identity in young adults (N = 667, 72.9% female, mean age = 20 years). In this model, career preparatory activities (career exploration and planning) were associated with perceptions of future employability and career distress. These relationships were mediated by career identity, and career identity was conditional upon level of career calling. We found that career exploration was associated with more career distress, while career planning was associated with less, and both career exploration and planning were associated with higher perceived employability. Career identity mediated between career exploration and planning and both outcomes, and these mediated relationships were stronger when career calling was higher. We interpreted the results from career construction, identity, and exploration perspectives; highlighted the applicability of these perspectives in the development of agency, career calling, and career identity; and made recommendations for testing other theory-based moderators.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Employability: A review of the literature 2012-2016 (2017, background): “In a larger study of 667 students career identity is described as “a network of meanings in which individuals consciously link their own interests, motivation and competencies with acceptable career roles” (Praskova et al. 2015, p. 145).”