Jones, Janelle (2015) Exploring Psychological Flexibility and Career Adaptability in Predicting Mother’s Life Satisfaction. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Primarily, this study investigates the relative influence of two constructs, psychological flexibility and career adaptability, on the evaluation of life satisfaction for a sample of mothers engaging or reengaging with the world of work following time taken for maternal responsibilities. Previous research indicates that the ”ready” state (psychological flexibility) in forecasting and supporting the “willing and able” stance (adaptivity and adaptability) has the stronger impact on evaluations of satisfaction, variously conceived either within specific life domains such as career, or more broadly in terms of general life satisfaction. Psychological flexibility has been found to underpin the “willing and able” stance involving both intrapersonal adaptivity and person-environment transactional adaptabilities (the resources needed to make adaptive career responses). Using standard multiple regression analyses, the relative impact on the estimation of life satisfaction of both constructs for this sample was explored. Results confirmed that psychological flexibility was a significant predictor of life satisfaction for this population while career adaptability was found to have no significant predictive relationship with this outcome. Secondarily, this study also explores the association between each of two less empirically tested constructs, work volition and vocational calling, with both career adaptability and life satisfaction outcomes. Study results produced a positive predictive relationship between work volition and both career adaptability and life satisfaction while vocational calling proved to be non-significant in predicting both career adaptability and life satisfaction evaluations for the study sample.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Nancey Hoare |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2025 00:23 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2025 00:23 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52450 |
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