Vocational indentity as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and life and job satisfaction

Hirschi, Andreas (2011). Vocational indentity as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and life and job satisfaction. Applied psychology - an international review, 60(4), pp. 622-644. Blackwell Publishing 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2011.00450.x

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This study investigated whether vocational identity achievement mediates the relation between basic personality dispositions (i.e. core self-evaluations) and career and well-being outcomes in terms of job and life satisfaction. Two studies with Swiss adolescents were conducted. Study 1 (N= 310) investigated students in eighth grade, prior to making the transition to vocational education and training (VET); it showed that vocational identity related positively to life satisfaction but that this relationship disappeared once core self-evaluations were controlled. Study 2 (N= 150) investigated students in their second year of VET; it showed that job satisfaction was unrelated to identity and self-evaluations. However, identity fully mediated the relation between self-evaluations and life satisfaction.

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