Parental Support on College Students’ Career Adaptability: The Role of Proactive Personality as Mediator

Career adaptability is one of the resource that must be possessed by every person on this day, because it has been considered as a driving factor that help people to achieve the desired work goals. Moreover, nowadays it has been known that the work arrangements are unpredictable and too many changes that occurs, because it is considered to have no boundaries and transparent, one of them is the emergence of new job relationships such as internet freelance. Antacedents that have been known previously from career adaptability are widely known as proactive personality, then This study also discuss another antecedent for career adaptability, which is known as thriving at work. This study also confirms previous research that discuss the mediating role of thriving at work on the effect of proactive personality on career adaptability. Total of the sample on this study are 352 internet freelancers from an online employement platform in Indonesia, where the internet freelance responded to the questionnaire that was shared by the author through an online approach. The obtained data have been analyzed by conducting a simple regression test equipped with PROCESS Model 4. Result have shown that there is a significant direct relationship of the three variables raised in this study, then also revealed the role of mediating from thriving at work on the effect of proactive personality on career adaptability. Overall, this study contributes to the literature discussing internet freelance. Keyword: Proactive Personality, Thriving at Work, Career Adaptability, Mediation, Internet Freelance

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The role of career competencies and proactive personality in early-career employee career adaptability

European Journal of Training and Development ◽

10.1108/ejtd-05-2020-0081 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Ahmed Khamis AlKhemeiri ◽

Khalizani Khalid ◽

Norwahida Musa

Keyword(s):

Work Experience ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Proactive Personality ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Quantitative Methodology ◽

Content Type ◽

Career Competencies

Purpose Employees with high career competencies are more successful in career development. However, it is unclear whether proactivity matters for early-career employees. Thus, this study aims to investigate the influence of career competencies and proactive personality on career adaptability and the moderating role of proactive personality in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a quantitative methodology, collecting data through online questionnaires from respondents (n = 400) who had less than five years of work experience in the UAE. A measurement model and hypotheses testing were conducted using AMOS software. Multigroup structural equation modelling was used to test the moderation model. Findings The results show a direct relationship between career competencies and career adaptability. However, a proactive personality is insignificantly related to career adaptability. Further, early-career employees with low proactive personality benefit from high career competencies. Originality/value This study offers contributions to the emerging understanding of career construction by emphasising the important role of career competencies for early-career employees who manifest a low proactive personality.

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The Role of Motivation, Parental Support, and Peer Support in the Academic Success of Ethnic Minority First-Generation College Students

Journal of College Student Development ◽

10.1353/csd.2005.0023 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 223-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 224

Author(s):

Jessica M Dennis ◽

Jean S Phinney ◽

Lizette Ivy Chuateco

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Academic Success ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Peer Support ◽

Parental Support ◽

First Generation ◽

First Generation College Students ◽

First Generation College

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Proactive personality and career adaptability: The role of thriving at work

Journal of Vocational Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.jvb.2016.10.003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 98 ◽

pp. 85-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Zhou Jiang

Keyword(s):

Proactive Personality ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Thriving At Work

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Courage, Career Adaptability, and Readiness as Resources to Improve Well-Being during the University-to-Work Transition in Italy

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18062919 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 2919 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paola Magnano ◽

Ernesto Lodi ◽

Andrea Zammitti ◽

Patrizia Patrizi

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Transition Readiness ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Career Interventions ◽

Work Transition ◽

University Degree ◽

The University

College students approaching a university degree can experience a critical period in their career development path that could affect their well-being. The main aim of this study was to examine the role of courage, career adaptability, and professional readiness as protective factors toward life satisfaction and flourishing during the university-to-work transition. These psychosocial resources could be useful to cope with the recent transformations of the labor market. The study involved 352 Italian university students (M = 100; F = 252), aged from 21 to 29 years (M = 23.57; SD = 2.37), attending the last year of their degree course. The results of the mediation analysis showed that courage plays a mediating role between career transition readiness and career adaptability, on one hand, with well-being indicators as outcomes. The results are discussed, providing some suggestions on practical implications for career interventions to support college students during the university-to-work transition.

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Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/0894845321995571 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089484532199557

Author(s):

Anna Parola ◽

Jenny Marcionetti

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Parental Support ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Positive Adaptation ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Positive Direct

According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of career adaptability between parental career-related behaviors and CDD and life satisfaction. Five hundred thirteen Italian students (182 of middle school, 141 of high school, and 190 of university) were involved. The results showed that parental support influences CDD and life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through the mediation of career adaptability. Parental interference and lack of engagement have a positive direct effect on CDD. Finally, CDD and life satisfaction are significantly and negatively associated. The data support the key role of parental support and career adaptability in CDD and life satisfaction. Practical implications are discussed.

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