Career development strategies as moderators between career compromise and career outcomes in emerging adults

The authors surveyed 130 first-year university students (80 per cent female; mean age 20.5) and assessed (a) the level of career compromise they reported between their ideal and enrolled university programs, (b) their career-related strategies, (c) their perceptions of employability, and (d) their career-related distress. The authors tested a model that proposed that career compromise would predict perceptions of employability and career distress and that the effects of compromise would be moderated by the career-related strategies. Two strategies, seeking career guidance and self-presentation ... Show more

Authors: Creed, Peter; Hughes, Trinette

Published: Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 2013

Resource type: Article

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