Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/10384162221140348
N. Ozdemir, Gökçen Aydın, Yasin Aydın
This study investigated concern, control, curiosity, and confidence serially mediated the associations between psychological flexibility (PF) at work and career commitment, based on the career construction model of adaptation and gender, age, education level, and tenure differences in career commitment. The white-collar employees (N = 353, 55% female) completed the Career Commitment Scale, Work-Related Acceptance and Action Questionnaire and Career Adaptabilities Scale-Short Form, and a Demographic Information Form. A multiple serial mediation model indicated that PF at work was related to concern, control, curiosity, and confidence, which in turn, contributed to career commitment, serially. The results of one-way ANOVA showed that career commitment differs according to education level, only. These findings suggested implications for theory, research, and practice, responding to the cultural context.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/10384162221140338
Hui Li, H. Ngo, Hazel Chui
Future work self is a promising concept to understand how young people view and plan their careers in the contemporary workplace. In this study, we attempt to investigate its impacts on two career-related outcomes, namely, perceived employability and career distress. Informed by social cognitive career theory, we also explore the mediating role of career decision self-efficacy in the above relationships. Several hypotheses were developed and tested with a sample of 208 final-year undergraduate students (with a mean age of 21.5 and 145 of them are female) in China. The results of structural equation modeling and bootstrapping indicated that future work self has a positive relationship with perceived employability and a negative relationship with career distress, while these relationships are found to be mediated by career decision self-efficacy. Our study has advanced our understanding about how future work self contributes to career-related well-being among Chinese students.
{"title":"The impact of future work self on perceived employability and career distress","authors":"Hui Li, H. Ngo, Hazel Chui","doi":"10.1177/10384162221140338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221140338","url":null,"abstract":"Future work self is a promising concept to understand how young people view and plan their careers in the contemporary workplace. In this study, we attempt to investigate its impacts on two career-related outcomes, namely, perceived employability and career distress. Informed by social cognitive career theory, we also explore the mediating role of career decision self-efficacy in the above relationships. Several hypotheses were developed and tested with a sample of 208 final-year undergraduate students (with a mean age of 21.5 and 145 of them are female) in China. The results of structural equation modeling and bootstrapping indicated that future work self has a positive relationship with perceived employability and a negative relationship with career distress, while these relationships are found to be mediated by career decision self-efficacy. Our study has advanced our understanding about how future work self contributes to career-related well-being among Chinese students.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"31 1 1","pages":"5 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78899358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/10384162221134204
Isabelle Fort, Florent Lheureux, L. Auzoult
The purpose of the present study was to extend the results of previous research exploring the paths between variables of the theory of planned behaviour and job attainment. The theory of planned behaviour assumes that attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy contribute to intention, which in turn determines behaviour and, finally, an outcome. Regarding job attainment, several moderators and several antecedents were identified, but the possible role of self-efficacy was neglected. In addition to examining its role, we also consider one of its possible antecedent (i.e. core self-evaluations) and whether private self-consciousness moderates the path between job search self-efficacy and job search intention. Scales measuring these variables were administered to a sample of 141 jobseekers, including 57 men and 84 women, most of them being between 45 and 54 years (n = 42) or between 35 and 44 years (n = 34). Results corroborate that core self-evaluations are related to job search self-efficacy and that private self-consciousness moderates the path between job search self-efficacy and job search intention, but in an unexpected way. Core self-evaluations are also directly related to job attainment. Results are discussed with reference to the literature and their practical implications.
{"title":"Job search intentions and job attainment are self-regulated: Prospective analysis of the effects of self-efficacy, self-consciousness and core self-evaluations","authors":"Isabelle Fort, Florent Lheureux, L. Auzoult","doi":"10.1177/10384162221134204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221134204","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to extend the results of previous research exploring the paths between variables of the theory of planned behaviour and job attainment. The theory of planned behaviour assumes that attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy contribute to intention, which in turn determines behaviour and, finally, an outcome. Regarding job attainment, several moderators and several antecedents were identified, but the possible role of self-efficacy was neglected. In addition to examining its role, we also consider one of its possible antecedent (i.e. core self-evaluations) and whether private self-consciousness moderates the path between job search self-efficacy and job search intention. Scales measuring these variables were administered to a sample of 141 jobseekers, including 57 men and 84 women, most of them being between 45 and 54 years (n = 42) or between 35 and 44 years (n = 34). Results corroborate that core self-evaluations are related to job search self-efficacy and that private self-consciousness moderates the path between job search self-efficacy and job search intention, but in an unexpected way. Core self-evaluations are also directly related to job attainment. Results are discussed with reference to the literature and their practical implications.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"302 1","pages":"39 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77184598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/10384162221142747
A. Russo, A. Zammitti, Rita Zarbo
In the uncertain and flexible labour market, some people experience indecision in dealing with career choices, despite having career readiness. The present research explored the relationship between career readiness, strategies for coping with career indecision, and well-being. Participants were 529 people aged between 18 and 60 (M = 26.57; SD = 6.83). The survey included: Readiness scale of the Career Transition Inventory, Productive scale and Support Seeking scale of Strategies for coping with career indecision, Flourishing Scale and Satisfaction with life scale. Results show that both productive and support-seeking strategies mediate the association between career readiness and flourishing and between career readiness and life satisfaction. As implications for career guidance, in addition to favouring career readiness, counsellors could promote productive strategies for coping with career indecision– and in some cases, support-seeking strategies–, to help people transform the experience of career indecision from insurmountable obstacles into an opportunity to act towards well-being.
{"title":"Career readiness and well-being: The mediation role of strategies for coping with career indecision","authors":"A. Russo, A. Zammitti, Rita Zarbo","doi":"10.1177/10384162221142747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221142747","url":null,"abstract":"In the uncertain and flexible labour market, some people experience indecision in dealing with career choices, despite having career readiness. The present research explored the relationship between career readiness, strategies for coping with career indecision, and well-being. Participants were 529 people aged between 18 and 60 (M = 26.57; SD = 6.83). The survey included: Readiness scale of the Career Transition Inventory, Productive scale and Support Seeking scale of Strategies for coping with career indecision, Flourishing Scale and Satisfaction with life scale. Results show that both productive and support-seeking strategies mediate the association between career readiness and flourishing and between career readiness and life satisfaction. As implications for career guidance, in addition to favouring career readiness, counsellors could promote productive strategies for coping with career indecision– and in some cases, support-seeking strategies–, to help people transform the experience of career indecision from insurmountable obstacles into an opportunity to act towards well-being.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"IA-16 1","pages":"14 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84593655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120352
J. Athanasou
The purpose of this study was to analyse 593 articles from 1120 authors published in the Australian Journal of Career Development between 1992 and 2001. The analysis focused on authorship, type of article, setting/participants and career development theory across three decades as well as across the first five editors during that period. The results revealed that (a) there was an increase in international career articles; (b) the majority of articles were empirical; (c) the most common samples comprised college/university students and adult workers; (d) over the last 30 years constructivist-narrative approaches and person-environment fit theories attracted the most research attention; and (e) the editorial policies of the journals have varied across time.
{"title":"Australian Journal of Career Development: A 30-year perspective","authors":"J. Athanasou","doi":"10.1177/10384162221120352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221120352","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to analyse 593 articles from 1120 authors published in the Australian Journal of Career Development between 1992 and 2001. The analysis focused on authorship, type of article, setting/participants and career development theory across three decades as well as across the first five editors during that period. The results revealed that (a) there was an increase in international career articles; (b) the majority of articles were empirical; (c) the most common samples comprised college/university students and adult workers; (d) over the last 30 years constructivist-narrative approaches and person-environment fit theories attracted the most research attention; and (e) the editorial policies of the journals have varied across time.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"56 1","pages":"179 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87331288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120464
M. McMahon, W. Patton
This 30th-year anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD) represents a milestone for the Systems Theory Framework (STF) of career development, the genesis of which was published in the 1992 first edition. Beginning as a contextual model of adolescent career decision-making, subsequent research and refinement resulted in the first publication of the STF in 1995 in the AJCD. At a time when constructivist and social constructionist ideas were only just beginning to influence career development, the STF introduced news of difference to the field. In subsequent decades, the STF has consolidated its place as an important theoretical contribution to career development as attested by the fourth edition of its seminal textbook. The STF's history is marked by a continual integration of theory, research, and practice. This article briefly overviews the STF, its applications and contributions, and offers suggestions for its future directions.
{"title":"The Systems Theory Framework of career development: News of difference and a journey towards acceptance","authors":"M. McMahon, W. Patton","doi":"10.1177/10384162221120464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221120464","url":null,"abstract":"This 30th-year anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD) represents a milestone for the Systems Theory Framework (STF) of career development, the genesis of which was published in the 1992 first edition. Beginning as a contextual model of adolescent career decision-making, subsequent research and refinement resulted in the first publication of the STF in 1995 in the AJCD. At a time when constructivist and social constructionist ideas were only just beginning to influence career development, the STF introduced news of difference to the field. In subsequent decades, the STF has consolidated its place as an important theoretical contribution to career development as attested by the fourth edition of its seminal textbook. The STF's history is marked by a continual integration of theory, research, and practice. This article briefly overviews the STF, its applications and contributions, and offers suggestions for its future directions.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"20 1","pages":"195 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87229039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120710
Robert Pryor, J. Bright
In acknowledging the contribution of the Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD's) continuing work to the career development field, this paper briefly outlines the Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) and its empirical support. Issues relating to closed and open system validation are canvassed. Two types of COVID-19 case study are analysed: a diary study and the pandemic event itself. COVID-19 confirms the CTC's claim that we all live on the edge of chaos.
{"title":"Chaos, complexity and COVID-19: The Chaos Theory of Careers in 2022","authors":"Robert Pryor, J. Bright","doi":"10.1177/10384162221120710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221120710","url":null,"abstract":"In acknowledging the contribution of the Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD's) continuing work to the career development field, this paper briefly outlines the Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) and its empirical support. Issues relating to closed and open system validation are canvassed. Two types of COVID-19 case study are analysed: a diary study and the pandemic event itself. COVID-19 confirms the CTC's claim that we all live on the edge of chaos.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"65 1","pages":"201 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87505408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120354
David Carney
{"title":"A reflection from Australia's peak body","authors":"David Carney","doi":"10.1177/10384162221120354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221120354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"14 1","pages":"194 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86120003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120351
W. Patton
The history of career development in Australia began with a combination of a rudimentary matching process and welfare-driven interventions. Practices over time were sourced from overseas, were interrupted by world wars, and were the subject of government and political interventions. From the 1970s and 1980s, many interventions in Australia were developed in parallel with those from other countries. Some of these included career education programs (the draft Australian Blueprint for Career Development (Morgan, 2003) was adapted from the Canadian Blueprint for Life/Work Designs, (Hache et al., 2000) and government sponsored information websites (e.g. the National Career Information System (NCIS), myfuture). However, by the 2000s, a number of Australian interventions were acclaimed as leaders in the field (e.g. the establishment of the national peak body, the Career Industry Council of Australia [CICA]), a world first). Indeed, Hughes (2014) commented that in the OECD (2004) ‘seminal assessment of careers guidance and public policy’ there were ‘over fifty specific references to Australia, key features of an emerging careers ecosystem’ (p. 6). This article will briefly document this history, document themes which recur such as different practices and policies occurring across jurisdictions, and political influences which serve to cause uncertainty as to the actual concept of career development. The paper will celebrate current strengths of the field in Australia and connect the 30 years of the Australian Journal of Career Development and the history of committed endeavour of those who worked toward the instigation of the journal to this dynamic history and to Australia’s ongoing international leadership.
{"title":"The history of the career development field in Australia: The representation of the Australian Journal of Career Development in Australia's ongoing international leadership","authors":"W. Patton","doi":"10.1177/10384162221120351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221120351","url":null,"abstract":"The history of career development in Australia began with a combination of a rudimentary matching process and welfare-driven interventions. Practices over time were sourced from overseas, were interrupted by world wars, and were the subject of government and political interventions. From the 1970s and 1980s, many interventions in Australia were developed in parallel with those from other countries. Some of these included career education programs (the draft Australian Blueprint for Career Development (Morgan, 2003) was adapted from the Canadian Blueprint for Life/Work Designs, (Hache et al., 2000) and government sponsored information websites (e.g. the National Career Information System (NCIS), myfuture). However, by the 2000s, a number of Australian interventions were acclaimed as leaders in the field (e.g. the establishment of the national peak body, the Career Industry Council of Australia [CICA]), a world first). Indeed, Hughes (2014) commented that in the OECD (2004) ‘seminal assessment of careers guidance and public policy’ there were ‘over fifty specific references to Australia, key features of an emerging careers ecosystem’ (p. 6). This article will briefly document this history, document themes which recur such as different practices and policies occurring across jurisdictions, and political influences which serve to cause uncertainty as to the actual concept of career development. The paper will celebrate current strengths of the field in Australia and connect the 30 years of the Australian Journal of Career Development and the history of committed endeavour of those who worked toward the instigation of the journal to this dynamic history and to Australia’s ongoing international leadership.","PeriodicalId":44843,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Career Development","volume":"18 1","pages":"167 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79183144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10384162221120353
W. Patton
This collection of reflections from the five former editors of the Australian Journal of Career Development demonstrates the efforts which have been undertaken over time to hold true to its original goals and to ensure that it has continued to develop to ensure its survival and growth within an everchanging career development research and practice landscape.
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