دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی انعطاف پذیری امنیت و انعطاف پذیری شغلی به عنوان پیش بینی کننده رفاه ذهنی - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

One's career adaptability can provide valuable information regarding the quality of their life satisfaction and life meaning during important career transitions. To date, however, few studies have examined the dispositional antecedents of career adaptability and no studies have specifically explored whether these relationships operate similarly or differently across distinct groups of adult career transitioners. To address this gap, we had 298 young adults (i.e., college seniors or recent graduates poised to enter the workforce) and 169 older adults (i.e., workers who were either contemplating retirement or recently retired) complete measures of adult attachment orientations, career adaptability, life satisfaction, and life meaning. Results demonstrated that attachment security and career adaptability were associated in expected directions with, and explained unique variance in, each of our indicators of subjective well-being, and that career adaptability scores mediated observed relations between adult attachment insecurity and transitioners' well-being. Exploratory analyses further showed that, for both groups of transitioners, career concern and control strategies emerged as significant mediators of these relationships. Future research directions and practical implications of our findings for counseling interventions with career transitioners are discussed.

Discussion

Research on career adaptability has been reinvigorated by the recent development of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS; Savickas & Porfeli, 2012) which identifies four basic competencies associated with this construct. Nonetheless, our understanding of the dispositional underpinnings of career adaptability and of its deployment during career transitions is limited. To address these inquiry goals, we administered the CAAS, along with measures of adult attachment security, life satisfaction, and life meaning to two distinct groups of transitioners: (a) young adult college students about to enter (or who had recently entered) the adult workforce, and (b) older adults who had recently retired from work (or who were preparing to do so). We hypothesized that, for the full sample, adult attachment orientations and career adaptability would each be uniquely associated with subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, presence of life meaning, search for life meaning) during their career transitions, and that career adaptability would mediate expected relations between adult attachment security and these adjustment outcomes. In addition, we conducted a series of moderated-mediational analyses to explore whether one's career transition group (young adult vs. older adult transitioners) moderated relationships between participants' adult attachment orientations and their scores on each of the four career adaptability competencies while it concurrently examined the roles of each of these competencies in mediating relationships between each dimension of adult attachment insecurity and each indicator of transitional well-being.