The Incremental Utility of Career Adaptability for Subjective Career Success Beyond Different Career and Personal Key Resources

Hänggli, Madeleine; Hirschi, Andreas (19 September 2018). The Incremental Utility of Career Adaptability for Subjective Career Success Beyond Different Career and Personal Key Resources (Unpublished). In: 51. DGPs-Kongress (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie) - "Psychologie gestaltet". Frankfurt, Deutschland. 15.09.-20.09.2018.

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We present a study in which we have extend current career adaptability research by investigating the relative importance and incremental utility of career adaptability over other types of resources (e.g. career and key resources). Although research regarding both career adaptability and other relevant career resources increased over the last years, it is not clear how career adaptability resources are related to other career resources and more general key resources. Moreover, the relative importance of career adaptability resources in comparison to other career resources for the attainment of subjective career success remains unexamined. To address these issues, we conducted a longitudinal study with 574 employees working in private industry and found support for the notion that the key resources of optimism and self-esteem are meaningfully related to career adaptability and a range of career resources. The results also showed that career adaptability should be conceptualized with a larger network of resources that are relevant for attaining subjective career success. As our study shows, career adaptability is significantly related to other types of career resources but career adaptability resources, knowledge and skills career resources, motivational career resources, and environmental career resources each explain unique variance in subjective career success. However, the conducted relative weight analyses suggest that especially motivational and environmental career resources might be more important to attain subjective career success compared to the psycho-social career adaptability resources.

Overall, the study contributes to a better understanding of the specific role of the career adaptability resources for subjective career success within a larger nomological net of resources. The findings help to better position career adaptability within a more general resources framework, including offering a better understanding of the unique contribution of career adaptability resources beyond other types of resources.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Hänggli, Madeleine, Hirschi, Andreas
Subjects:	100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
Language:	English
Submitter:	Madeleine Hänggli
Date Deposited:	27 May 2019 15:14
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:26
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/126733