Vocational Identity as a Mediator of the Relationship between Core Self-Evaluations and Life and Job Satisfaction

By A. Hirschi. 2011

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This study investigated whether vocational identity achievement mediates the relation between basic personality dispositions (i.e. core self-evaluations) and career and well-being outcomes in terms of job and life satisfaction. Two studies with Swiss adolescents were conducted. Study 1 (N= 310) investigated students in eighth grade, prior to making the transition to vocational education and training (VET); it showed that vocational identity related positively to life satisfaction but that this relationship disappeared once core self-evaluations were controlled. Study 2 (N= 150) investigated students in their second year of VET; it showed that job satisfaction was unrelated to identity and self-evaluations. However, identity fully mediated the relation between self-evaluations and life satisfaction.

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

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Developmental trajectories and reciprocal associations between career adaptability and vocational identity: A three-wave longitudinal study with adolescents (2015, unknown): “Marcia's (1966) model of identity was applied to the vocational domain and several cross-sectional studies (e.g., Hirschi, 2011; Skorikov & Vondracek, 1998; Vondracek, Schulenberg, Skorikov, Gillespie, & Wahlheim, 1995) focused on analyses of vocational identity statuses (e.g., achievement,…”
Career identity and the complex mediating relationships between career preparatory actions and career progress markers (2015, background): “studies with young people have shown positive associations between career identity and life satisfaction (Hirschi, 2011; Hirschi & Herrmann, 2012) and negative associations with career distress and dysfunctional career thoughts (Larson et al.”
The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors (2012, background): “Psychological resources, such as self-efficacy beliefs or positive affect, can promote identity development because they enhance the focused collection and integration of career information (career exploration) and facilitate career decision making and goal setting (Hirschi, 2011).”