Career maturity and career adaptability among vocational high school students: a moderated mediation model of future time perspective and future work self

Abstract

This study examines future work self as a mediator and future time perspective as a moderator in the relationship between career maturity and career adaptability, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. A sample of 636 Chinese vocational high school students was investigated. The results indicated that career maturity was associated with a clearly envisioned future work self, which in turn was related to high career adaptability. The interaction effect of career maturity and future time perspective was significantly associated with career adaptability. These results offer valuable insights for career development among vocational high school students. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2024.

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Author Keywords

Career adaptability Vocational high school students future time perspective career maturity Future work self

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Author Affiliations

Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, VOV, Belgium

Funding & Acknowledgements

National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC

Grant: 32071092

This study was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 32071092).

National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC

This study was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 32071092).

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Career maturity and career adaptability among vocational high school students: a moderated mediation model of future time perspective and future work self

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