Career adaptability and academic satisfaction: Examining work volition and self efficacy as mediators

By Ryan D. Duffy, Richard P Douglass, Kelsey L. Autin. 2015

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Abstract The present study examined the relation between the four components of career adaptability – concern, control, curiosity, and confidence (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012) – and academic satisfaction. Drawing from a diverse sample of 412 undergraduate students, all four components moderately correlated with academic satisfaction. In an effort to explain these relations, work volition and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) were examined as potential mediator variables. Using structural equation modeling, work volition significantly mediated the control to satisfaction relation and CDSE significantly mediated the concern, control, and confidence to satisfaction relations. After including all variables in the model, none of the career adaptability components significantly related with academic satisfaction. These results suggest that for undergraduate students, feeling adaptable in one's career may link to greater levels of academic satisfaction due, in part, to greater feelings of control and confidence in one's career decision making.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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A Systematic Review of the Career Adaptability Literature and Future Outlook (2018, background): “The cross-sectional relation between control and academic satisfaction is mediated by work volition, whereas career decision self-efficacy mediates the relations between concern, control, confidence, and academic satisfaction (Duffy et al., 2015).”
Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy: Meta-Analysis (2021, methodology): “Career adaptability and self-efficacy are widely considered to be important resources individually and in relation to each other for successfully navigating the career development and career decision processes (Duffy et al., 2015; Johnston, 2016; Savickas & Porfeli, 2012) in the uncertain work clima”
Moving Toward Decent Work: Application of the Psychology of Working Theory to the School-to-Work Transition (2021, methodology): “Based on this framework, PWT (Duffy et al., 2016) consists of a theoretical and empirical model of decent work.”