Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations
The aim of this study was to extend previous findings on antecedents of career adaptability in adolescence. Drawing on career construction theory and the distal-proximal theory of motivation, we investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluations in the relationship between basic personality tr...
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| description | The aim of this study was to extend previous findings on antecedents of career adaptability in adolescence. Drawing on career construction theory and the distal-proximal theory of motivation, we investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluations in the relationship between basic personality traits and career adaptability in adolescence. The study included 1793 Croatian high-school students from 18 high schools who attended first to third grade. Path analysis revealed that adolescents’ higher core self-evaluations partially accounted for the predictive effects of extraversion and conscientiousness on their career adaptability. Conscientiousness and extraversion were positively related to core self-evaluations, which, in turn, were related to higher career adaptability. There was also a very small but significant indirect effect of students’ openness to experience on their career adaptability via core self-evaluations. Conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness to experience were directly and positively related to career adaptability. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-84bf8caabc9c4ccba3f55d5600b5f6162025-01-30T06:46:19ZengDrustvo Psihologa SrbijePsihologija0048-57051451-92832025-01-0158110712510.2298/PSI221220019S0048-57052400019SPersonality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluationsŠimunović Mara0Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, CroatiaThe aim of this study was to extend previous findings on antecedents of career adaptability in adolescence. Drawing on career construction theory and the distal-proximal theory of motivation, we investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluations in the relationship between basic personality traits and career adaptability in adolescence. The study included 1793 Croatian high-school students from 18 high schools who attended first to third grade. Path analysis revealed that adolescents’ higher core self-evaluations partially accounted for the predictive effects of extraversion and conscientiousness on their career adaptability. Conscientiousness and extraversion were positively related to core self-evaluations, which, in turn, were related to higher career adaptability. There was also a very small but significant indirect effect of students’ openness to experience on their career adaptability via core self-evaluations. Conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness to experience were directly and positively related to career adaptability. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2025/0048-57052400019S.pdfcareer adaptabilitypersonality traitscore self-evaluationscareer construction |
| spellingShingle | Šimunović Mara Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations Psihologija career adaptability personality traits core self-evaluations career construction |
| title | Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations |
| title_full | Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations |
| title_fullStr | Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations |
| title_short | Personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents: The mediating role of core self-evaluations |
| title_sort | personality traits and career adaptability in adolescents the mediating role of core self evaluations |
| topic | career adaptability personality traits core self-evaluations career construction |
| url | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2025/0048-57052400019S.pdf |
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