Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7369
Title: Testing the career adaptability model with senior high school students in Hong Kong
Authors: Leung, Sheung Ming, Alvin 
Mo, Jianhong 
Yuen, Mantak 
Dr. CHEUNG Wai Leung, Raysen 
Issue Date: 2022
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Dec. 2022, vol. 139, article no. 103808.
Journal: Journal of Vocational Behavior 
Abstract: This study examined the career adaptability model of the career construction theory (CCT, Savickas, 2021) using data collected from two time points and measures that covered the inter-related domains of career and life planning. Participants were high school students (470 women and 338 men) from 14 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Students completed the adaptive readiness (interests and competence flexibility) and adaptability resources (Career Adapt-Ability Scale, CAAS) measures in their sophomore or junior year of study (Time 1), and the adapting responses (life-skills competencies) and adaptation results (presence of life purposes, career decision-making difficulties) measures at the end of their senior year (Time 2). Findings from SEMs suggested a good fit of the data with the career adaptability model. Interest and competence flexibility, adaptability resources from Time 1 contributed directly and indirectly to the prediction of life-skills competencies, the presence of life meaning, and decision-making preparedness in Time 2 as hypothesized. Interest and competence flexibility were instrumental in activating adaptability resources and maintaining movement through transitions, and the CAAS and life skill measures were mediating variables in the adaptability process. The SEM using the CAAS dimensions revealed that the concern and the confidence subscales were involved in the sequence of direct and indirect effects. Results demonstrated that the adaptability model could be used to understand the transition experience of high school students who were facing rapid social changes. Conceptual, practice, and research implications were discussed.
Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7369
ISSN: 0001-8791
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103808
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