Career adaptability profiles and their relationship to adaptivity and adapting

By A. Hirschi, Domingo Valero. 2015

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Research on career adaptability predominantly uses variable-centered approaches that focus on the average effects in terms of the predictors and outcomes within a given sample. Extending this research, the present paper used a person-centered approach to determine whether subgroups with distinct adaptability profiles in terms of concern, control, curiosity and confidence can be identified. We also explored the relationship between the various adaptability profiles and adapting (career planning, career decision-making difficulties, career exploration, and occupational self-efficacy beliefs) and adaptivity (core self-evaluations and proactivity). Using latent profile analysis, we found distinct adaptability profiles among 350 German university students. Students with different profiles differed significantly in their levels of adapting. This finding was confirmed in a second study of 1226 students selected from the same population. In both samples, the adaptability profiles differed mainly in terms of their adaptability levels but not their shape. Moreover, in both samples, the students whose profiles indicated generally higher adaptability showed more adapting compared with the students whose profiles indicated generally lower adaptability. Study 2 also showed that students with higher-adaptability profiles showed significantly higher adaptivity. The results suggest that level effects dominate adaptability profiles, implying the existence of a general adaptability factor within university students that is meaningfully related to adapting and adaptivity.

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

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Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research (2020, background): “Herman, Trotter, Reinke, and Ialongo (2011) Perfectionism: self-oriented striving, self-oriented critical, socially prescribed GPC Hirschi and Valero (2017) Work motivation: chance events, career decidedness CAO Hirschi and Valero (2015) Career adaptability: concern, control, curiosity, confidence C”
Linking dimensions of career adaptability to adaptation results: A meta-analysis (2017, background): “For example, while most studies find that concern most strongly correlated with vocational identity (Hirschi & Valero, 2015; NegruSubtirica et al., 2015; Porfeli & Savickas, 2012), other research finds vocational identity to be equally correlated with all career adaptability dimensions…”
A Systematic Review of the Career Adaptability Literature and Future Outlook (2018, background): “Researchers may also want to consider measuring career adaptability resources as a latent variable (Hirschi & Valero, 2015) rather than only as a total score which is commonly done.”
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).”