Self-esteem and proactive personality as predictors of future work self and career adaptability: An examination of mediating and moderating processes

In today’s highly uncertain environment, the value of creativity and innovation are increasingly critical. How individuals could improve their creativity and innovation performance has become the focus of attention. Future work self as an intrinsic motivation factor plays an important role in creativity and innovation. Based on the self-consistency theory, this study integrated proactive personality and informal field-based learning (IFBL) to explore the relationship between future work self and employee creativity to increase innovation performance. It used data from 201 R&D department employees in China’s high-tech companies. The results show that future work self has a positive effect on employee creativity and that IFBL mediates the relationship between future work self and employee creativity. This process is then positively moderated by a proactive personality. This study’s results help clarify the formation mechanism of creativity from the perspective of intrinsic motivation and indicate that future work self can drive individuals’ creativity and innovation efforts, especially under the consistency of self-concept, motivation and personality. This research also emphasizes the importance of IFBL in improving individual creativity and further organizational innovation performance. Implications for theory and management to help improve creativity and innovation performance are then discussed in detail.

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Impact of abusive supervision on turnover intention through future work self-salience and organization-based self-esteem

International Journal of Organizational Leadership ◽

10.33844/ijol.2017.60260 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 481-490 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Arif ◽

Muzammal Ilyas Sindhu ◽

Syeda Faiza Urooj ◽

Shujahat Haider Hashmi

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Abusive Supervision ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Future Work ◽

Future Work Self

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A moderating role of future work self-salience in the relationship between proactive personality and calling of student athletes

10.26226/morressier.5cf632c0af72dec2b0554801 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Wan Chen Lu ◽

Shin-Huei Lin

Keyword(s):

Student Athletes ◽

Proactive Personality ◽

Future Work ◽

The Relationship ◽

Future Work Self ◽

Moderating Role

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Peran Efikasi Diri dalam Keputusan Karier terhadap Hubungan antara Future Work Self dengan Adaptabilitas Karier pada Mahasiswa Tingkat Akhir

Jurnal Psikologi Teori dan Terapan ◽

10.26740/jptt.v9n2.p160-174 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 160

Author(s):

Arifiana Nabilah ◽

Wahyu Indianti

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Career Development ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Future Work ◽

The Relationship ◽

Future Work Self

Competition in the current era of globalization requires individuals to be more adaptive in their careers. Career adaptability is one of the constructs related to career psychology that focuses on helping individuals to monitor career development during their lifetime. This research was conducted on 440 final year college students who were at least in the seventh semester of their studies at university. This study assumes that career decision self-efficacy a mediator for the relation between future work self and career adaptability. The results show that future work self has a strong relationship with career adaptability. The relationship is proved to be mediated partially by career decision self-efficacy. There are still other possible variables that can fully explain the relationship of future work self and career adaptability to final years college students.Key words: Career adaptability, future work self, career decision self-efficacy, college students

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Future work self and career adaptability in the prediction of proactive career behaviors

Journal of Vocational Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.jvb.2014.10.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 86 ◽

pp. 20-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Brian J. Taber ◽

Maureen Blankemeyer

Keyword(s):

Career Adaptability ◽

Future Work ◽

Future Work Self

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Career Exploration and College Students’ Career Adaptability: The Mediating Role of Future Work Self-Salience and Moderating Role of Perceived Teacher Support

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society ◽

10.1155/2021/3532239 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Yan Xiao ◽

Ying He ◽

Xiaoxiao Gao ◽

Lei Lu ◽

Xin Yu

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Teacher Support ◽

Career Exploration ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Perceived Teacher Support ◽

Future Work ◽

Future Work Self ◽

Moderating Role

Based on the theory of career construction, a moderated mediation model is built in this paper to probe into the relationship between career exploration and career adaptability, discussing the mediating role of future work self-salience and the moderating role of perceived teacher support. With the research sample of 1101 unemployed college students, SPSS and AMOS, a structural equation modeling software is employed for modeling so as to perform the linear regression analysis of three-stage data. The research findings are about four aspects; to start with, students’ career exploration is positively related to career adaptability; besides, future work self-salience plays a partial role in mediating between college students’ career exploration and career adaptability; next, perceived teacher support positively moderates two kinds of positive relationship: one is between career exploration and future work self-salience of college students and the other between their future work self-salience and career adaptability. Lastly, the indirect effect of the future work self-salience between career exploration and career adaptability is moderated by perceived teacher support. As opposed to a lower level of teacher support, this moderated mediating effect is significant only at a higher level of perceived teacher support. This research clarifies the link between career exploration and career adaptability through future work self-salience and practical enlightenment about how to enhance career adaptability via perceived teacher support.

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Mediating Model of College Students’ Proactive Personality and Career Adaptability

The Career Development Quarterly ◽

10.1002/cdq.12269 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 (3) ◽

pp. 216-230

Author(s):

Xiaoyi Hu ◽

Yiqing He ◽

Danyang Ma ◽

Sihan Zhao ◽

Hui Xiong ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Proactive Personality ◽

Career Adaptability

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Proactive Personality as a Predictor of Career Adaptability and Career Growth Potential: A View From Conservation of Resources Theory

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.699461 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Su Wang ◽

Mei Mei ◽

Yang Xie ◽

Yiting Zhao ◽

Fu Yang

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Emotional Exhaustion ◽

Proactive Personality ◽

Growth Potential ◽

Conservation Of Resources ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Friend Support ◽

Career Growth ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Individualized Consideration

In the present study, we offered a new account for the development of career adaptability and the realization of career growth potential based on conservation of resources (COR) theory. Using data collected from 903 university students in China, we examined how and when proactive personality influences students’ career adaptability and career growth potential by introducing emotional exhaustion as a mediator as well as friend support and teacher individualized consideration as boundary conditions. Specifically, the results confirmed a positive effect of proactive personality on career adaptability, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion. In addition, results suggested a positive effect of proactive personality on career growth potential, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion and career adaptability. Moreover, results showed that in-school social support (i.e., friend support and teacher individualized consideration) served as moderators in the relationship between proactive personality and emotional exhaustion, such that the negative effect of proactive personality on emotional exhaustion was strengthened when students received high levels of social support. Theoretical implications of career adaptability research and COR theory and practical implications for promoting adaptability resources and career growth in university are provided.

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