مقاله سال ۲۰۱۷

In the last two decades, career adaptability has emerged as a pivotal variable in the prediction of positive career outcomes. First introduced as a component of Career Construction Theory (CCT; Savickas, 1997, 2002, 2005), career adaptability has been conceptualized as the ability to use resources to cope with current and anticipated vocational tasks (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012). These resources include self-regulatory strengths that allow for flexible responses to the person, environment, and their interaction (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012). Thus, career adaptability is a dynamic construct, and a person who is highly adaptable at work has the ability to adjust in order to meet work demands.

Despite a surge in research on career adaptability since its introduction into the literature, the role of contextual variables in the development of career adaptability has received little attention from researchers. In the current study, we attend to some of these contextual factors; specifically, we examine two indicators of vocational privilege- subjective social status (SSS) and work volition- in relation to career adaptability. We assess these variables at three time points over a six month period, examining direct and indirect relations between SSS, work volition, and career adaptability. We build from the recently developed Psychology of Working Theory (Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016), which places contextual variables related to social and economic privilege as critical predictors of vocational and overall well-being outcomes.