Salama, Mary (2015) The Application of Career Construction Theory: Career Adaptability and Life Satisfaction in Retail Employees. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
To improve one’s ability to adapt to the changing workforce, past research has explored the role of therapeutic methods in a career counselling setting. However, the literature on schema-focused therapy as a therapeutic approach for career counselling is scarce. Through the application of Career Construction Theory (CCT), a theoretical model, the present paper aims to explore how the constructs of early maladaptive schemas (EMS), vocational calling and work volition relate to the CCT’s dimensions of adaptivity, adaptability, adapting and adaptation in a sample of 138 retail workers. Results from standard multiple regression analyses supported the hypothesis that EMS, vocational calling, and work volition significantly predict career adaptability. Together, the variables accounted for approximately 15.4% of the variance in career adaptability (R = .39, F(5,125) = 4.55, p = .001). This model identified vocational calling as a unique predictor of career adaptability. Results also showed that EMS, work volition, vocational calling and career adaptability, significantly accounted for 36% of the variance in life satisfaction (R = .60, F(6, 124) = 11.36, p < .001). Three unique predictors emerged from the model, including, EMS, career adaptability and work volition. These results provide support for the use of EMS as an operational form of career adaptivity. In addition, this study builds a pathway for future research to explore the application of schema therapy in a career counselling context.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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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: | 26 Aug 2025 00:11 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2025 00:11 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Career adaptability; career adaptivity; schema focused therapy; early maladaptive schemas; life satisfaction; retail workers |
| 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/52729 |
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