Big-five personality and BIS/BAS traits as predictors of career exploration: The mediation role of career adaptability

By Yuhui Li, Yanjun Guan, Fuxi Wang, Xiang Zhou, Kun Guo, Peng Jiang, Zichuan Mo, Yumeng Li, Zheng Fang. 2015

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Abstract Based on career construction theory, the current research examined whether career adaptability mediates the relations of the personality traits (Five-Factor Model personality traits and behavioral inhibition and activation systems (BIS/BAS)) to career exploration behavior. Results from a survey in Chinese university students ( N = 264) showed that career exploration correlated negatively with neuroticism, and positively with openness to experience, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and BAS. Results of regression analyses further showed that openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness and BAS served as the strongest predictors for career exploration. In addition, career adaptability was shown to be a key mediator for the relationships between personality traits and career exploration behavior. Career concern and career curiosity were the more important dimensions in the mediation model. These findings advance current understandings on how different personality traits predict career exploration behavior.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research

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The effects of work social support and career adaptability on career satisfaction and turnover intentions (2016, background): “Third, little is known about the antecedents (e.g., personality variables) and consequences (e.g., job performance) of career adaptability in the extant literature (Li et al., 2015; Ohme & Zacher, 2015).”
A Systematic Review of the Career Adaptability Literature and Future Outlook (2018, background): “In particular, concern and curiosity mediate the relation between personality (openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and the behavioral activation system) and career exploration (Li et al., 2015).”
Modeling dynamics in career construction: Reciprocal relationship between future work self and career exploration (2017, methodology): “…2015; Guan et al., 2015), extant research has yielded limited insights into a reciprocal model for the relationships among these constructs, partly due to the limitations associated with cross-sectional or time-lagged research designs (e.g., Cai et al., 2015; Guan et al., 2015; Li et al., 2015).”
Daily manifestations of career adaptability : Relationships with job and career outcomes (2015, unknown): “Moreover, concern and curiosity relate positively to career exploration behaviors (Li et al., 2015) and to behaviors that facilitate the development of professional competencies (Guo et al., 2014).”
Career Preparedness Among Adolescents: A Review of Key Components and Directions for Future Research (2020, background): “Hence, a variety of personality characteristics such as the big five traits (e.g., Li et al., 2015; Stringer et al., 2012; Sverko & Babarvic, 2019), core self-evaluations (Hirschi et al., 2015), proactive personality (Hirschi et al., 2015; I.-J. Park, 2015), hope or optimism (e.g., Buyukgoze-Kavas,…”
Investigating the link between trait emotional intelligence, career indecision, and self-perceived employability: The role of career adaptability (2018, background): “Career adaptability was shown to be a mediator of the relationship between personality dispositions and career exploration and engagement (Li et al., 2015; Nilforooshan & Salimi, 2016).”