Looking Ahead, Looking Around, and Looking to Others: Identifying Core Proactive Behaviors in the Quest for Career Sustainability

IF 2.8 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Ruogu J. Wang, Emily R. Cygrymus, Bhanu Priya Moturu
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The topic of proactivity has long captured the attention of career scholars, leading to fertile, yet often disconnected streams of inquiry on personality traits and behaviors that can help workers to advance their own careers, improve their work conditions, or access desired rewards. Based on a review of diverse approaches to conceptualizing and assessing proactive career behavior and related constructs, we identified seven commonly appearing behavioral categories and assembled a representative set of items of each category. An exploratory factor analysis in a sub-sample of adult workers ( n = 250) yielded three interrelated factors, labeled (a) planning/reflecting/reskilling (or looking ahead, e.g., engaging in self-reflection and skill development efforts); (b) networking/conferring (or looking to others, e.g., consulting with colleagues and supervisors); and (c) exploring/searching (or looking around, e.g., monitoring career options proactively). A bifactor model fit the data well in another sub-sample ( n = 337), suggesting that the three factors were subsumed by a larger construct, which we labeled career sustainability behavior. Results of a structural path analysis indicated that, along with supervisor support, proactive personality, and conceptually-relevant self-efficacy measures, engagement in career sustainability behaviors was predictive of perceived internal and external job marketability.
展望未来,放眼四周,放眼他人:在追求职业可持续发展的过程中,识别核心的主动行为
长期以来,主动性这个话题一直吸引着职业学者的注意,导致了关于人格特质和行为的大量研究,这些研究往往互不相关,可以帮助员工推进自己的职业生涯,改善工作条件,或获得期望的奖励。基于对各种概念化和评估主动职业行为及其相关构念的方法的回顾,我们确定了七个常见的行为类别,并组装了每个类别的代表性项目集。对成年工人(n = 250)的子样本进行探索性因素分析,得出三个相互关联的因素,标记为(a)计划/反思/再培训(或展望未来,例如,从事自我反思和技能发展努力);(b)联络/交流(或寻求他人,例如,与同事和主管协商);(c)探索/搜索(或四处寻找,例如,主动监控职业选择)。双因素模型与另一个子样本(n = 337)的数据拟合良好,表明这三个因素被包含在一个更大的结构中,我们将其标记为职业可持续性行为。结构路径分析结果表明,与主管支持、主动性人格和概念相关的自我效能测量一起,职业可持续性行为的参与对感知的内部和外部工作市场化具有预测作用。
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Journal of Career Assessment
Journal of Career Assessment PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-
CiteScore
6.10
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15.60%
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48
期刊介绍: The Journal of Career Assessment publishes methodologically sound, empirically based studies focusing on the process and techniques by which counselors and others gain understanding of the individual faced with the necessity of making informed career decisions. The term career assessment, as used in this journal, covers the various techniques, tests, inventories, rating scales, interview schedules, surveys, and direct observational methods used in scientifically based practice and research to provide an improved understanding of career decision-making. The focus is not just testing, but all those means developed and used to assess and evaluate individuals and environments in the field of career counseling and development.
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