The impact of future work self on perceived employability and career distress.

Autor: Hui Li, Hang-yue Ngo, Hazel Chui
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Zdroj: Australian Journal of Career Development (Sage Publications Ltd.); Apr2023, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p5-13, 9p
Abstrakt: 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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