Effect of Proactive Personality and Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on Career Adaptability Among Chinese Graduates

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 903-912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunna Hou ◽  
Lin Wu ◽  
Zhijun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Graduate Students

We studied the effect of proactive personality and career decision-making self-efficacy on career adaptability under employment pressure among 810 Chinese graduate students. Participants completed the Proactive Personality Scale, the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale–International Form 2.0, the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Employment Pressure Scale. The results showed: (a) proactive personality affected career adaptability, (b) career decision-making self-efficacy played a mediating role in that relationship, (c) employment pressure moderated the mediating effect on the relationship in (a), and (d) students with a highly proactive personality were more inclined to be influenced by the negative effects of employment pressure than were those with a less proactive personality when forming career decision-making self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Career Decision Ambiguity Tolerance and Career Decision-Making Difficulties in a French Sample: The Mediating Role of Career Decision Self-Efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Storme ◽  
Pinar Celik ◽  
Nils Myszkowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Ambiguity Tolerance ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

In the current work, we investigated the relationship between career decision ambiguity tolerance (CDAT) and career decision-making difficulties among French-speaking university students. In a preliminary validation study ( N = 246), we examined the psychometric properties of the CDAT Scale. Our results showed that the French CDAT Scale had satisfactory levels of scale score reliability, that its factor structure was consistent with the original three-factor structure, and that it had incremental predictive power over general ambiguity tolerance when predicting career decision self-efficacy and career adaptability. In a second study ( N = 412), building on social cognitive career theory, we hypothesized that career decision self-efficacy mediates the relationship between CDAT and career decision-making difficulties. Results were consistent with our hypotheses. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.

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