Is the future still open? The mediating role of occupational future time perspective in the effects of career adaptability and aging experience on late career planning
Is the future still open? The mediating role of occupational future time perspective in the effects of career adaptability and aging experience on late career planning
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jvb.2018.10.006
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Klehe, Ute-Christine
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作者：
Fasbender, Ulrike;Woehrmann, Anne M.;Klehe, Ute-Christine
许多研究试图了解人们如何构建自己的职业生涯，然而，对老年工人的职业生涯建设知之甚少。为了理解人们如何在晚年构建他们的职业生涯，我们从职业生涯构建理论的生命周期发展角度出发。具体来说，我们提出并测试了一个模型，在这个模型中，我们仔细研究了老年工人的职业适应性和老龄化经验（即，身体损失、社会损失、个人成长和获得自我认识）作为影响其后期职业规划的相关因素。此外，我们探讨了这些关系是否是由老年工人的职业未来时间洞察力作为一个重要的潜在机制之间的适应性资源（即，职业适应性），经验（即，老化经验），和适应性反应（即，后期职业规划）。我们测试我们的模型与两波纵向数据从一个样本的老年工人（50至79岁）总部设在英国。结果表明，职业未来时间洞察力对职业适应和个人成长具有正向调节作用，而身体损失对后期职业生涯规划具有负向调节作用。总的来说，我们的研究结果有助于更好地理解后期职业生涯建设，并为老年工人提供了实际意义，以帮助他们成功地规划他们的后期职业生涯。
Much research has sought to understand how people construct their careers; however, only little is known about the career construction of older workers. To understand how people construct their careers in later life, we take a lifespan development perspective on career construction theory. Specifically, we propose and test a model in which we take a closer look at older workers' career adaptability and aging experience (i.e., physical loss, social loss, personal growth, and gaining self-knowledge) as relevant factors shaping their late career planning. Moreover, we explore whether these relationships are mediated by older workers' occupational future time perspective as an important underlying mechanism between adaptability resources (i.e., career adaptability), experiences (i.e., aging experience), and adapting responses (i.e., late career planning). We test our model with two-wave longitudinal data from a sample of older workers (aged 50 to 79) based in the United Kingdom. Results show that occupational future time perspective mediated the positive effects of career adaptability and personal growth, as well as the negative effect of physical loss on late career planning. Overall, our findings contribute to a better understanding of late career construction and offers practical implications for older workers to purse activities that help them to successfully plan their late career.