The Influence of Personal Growth Initiative and Coping Styles on Career Exploration and Vocational Identity

1999 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Robitschek ◽  
Stephen W. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
And Coping

Positive Predictors of Career Adaptability Among Diverse Community College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Margo A. Gregor ◽  
Ingrid K. Weigold ◽  
Ginelle Wolfe ◽  
Devynn Campbell-Halfaker ◽  
Javier Martin-Fernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community College Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Educational Barriers ◽  
Diverse Community ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
And Coping

Career Construction Theory (CCT) posits that an individual’s vocational development occurs as a product of their readiness, resources, and responses to the environment in which they are situated. Thus, an individual’s ability to adapt to environmental demands is predicated on a number of complex and interwoven inter- and intrapersonal factors. This is particularly relevant to the community college student population who, relative to their 4-year university counterparts, experience disparate rates of educational barriers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to use CCT as a theoretical framework for investigating the relations among agentic characteristics (personal growth initiative and grit), barriers (perceptions of academic and educational barriers and coping with barriers), and career adaptability in a sample of diverse community college students. Data from a sample of 309 community college students indicated that perceptions of barriers significantly predicted career adaptability through coping with barriers, grit, and personal growth initiative. Serial mediation was supported for the effect of perceptions of barriers on career adaptability through personal growth initiative and coping with barriers. Results also indicated that the proposed model accounted for 55% of the variance in career adaptability. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.

Enhancing personal growth initiative

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan A. Martinez ◽  
Daria Roumiantseva ◽  
Nathaniel Geiger ◽  
Rhea Ponder
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Growth Initiative

Predicting Homesickness in Residential Athletes

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Smith ◽  
Stephanie Hanrahan ◽  
Ruth Anderson ◽  
Lyndel Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Developmental Milestone ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
And Coping

Leaving home or transitioning to another environment is a part of every individual’s personal growth and is often considered to be a significant developmental milestone. The distress that individuals experience with this transition has been identified as homesickness. Elite sporting institutions, such as the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), have recognized that problems associated with homesickness appear to be a predominant cause of poor well-being and dropout among athletes living in a national sports institute. This study aimed to investigate if individual personality traits and coping styles could predict levels of homesickness in these athletes. Neuroticism, self-esteem, and mental escape were significant predictors of homesickness. These results suggest that athletes who are vulnerable to homesickness can be identified before the commencement of their sporting scholarships so they can be treated accordingly.

scholarly journals Perception of Psycho-Social School Environment, Personal Growth Initiative and Fear of Failure among EAMCET Aspirants

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Nandini Sanyal ◽  
Tina Fernandes ◽  
Zaina Hazari
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Intermediate Students ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Important Others ◽  
Growth Initiative

<div><p><em>The objective of the present study is to investigate whether there is a relationship between perception of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure in intermediate students. The study also aimed to observe whether there are gender differences between students going to colleges (viz. with EAMCET coaching and without EAMCET coaching) in terms of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure in intermediate students. The School Environment Inventory (Misra, 1984), the Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II (Robitschek et al., 2012) and the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (Conroy et. al., 2002) were administered on 300 intermediate students (150 boys and 150 girls) selected through a non-probability purposive sampling technique to measure the perception of psycho-social school environment, personal growth initiative and fear of failure respectively. The results indicated significant gender differences between the students going to colleges with coaching and the students going to colleges without coaching with respect to perception of psycho-social school environment and personal growth initiative (p&lt;0.05). However, no significant gender differences were observed in fear of failure and its dimensions (p&gt;0.05). Among students going to colleges with coaching negative correlations were observed between rejection, fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment  and personal growth initiative, moreover in this group, creative stimulation, cognitive encouragement and permissiveness (p&lt;0.05) were positively correlated with using resources and negatively correlated with fears of important others losing interest (p&lt;0.05). Also personal growth initiative was positively correlated with fears of upsetting important others and cognitive encouragement (p&lt;0.05) in students going to colleges without coaching. The present study reiterates that perception of school environment by students is of paramount importance in promoting or hindering the student’s personal growth initiative and subsequently their fear of failure.</em></p></div>

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