Psychological Well-Being: Its Relation to Work Personality, Vocational Identity, and Career Thoughts

The authors examined the impact of the 6 dimensions of psychological well-being on participants' career thoughts, vocational identity, and developmental work personality. Undergraduates (N = 91) completed 4 measures: (a) C. D. Ryff's (1989, 1995) Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB),...

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Published in:The journal of psychology 2008-01, Vol.142 (1), p.21-35
Main Authors: Strauser, David R., Lustig, Daniel C., Çiftçi, Ayşe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Behavior
Career Choice
Career development
Career development planning
Careers
College students
Decision making
Female
Happiness
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Occupations
Personal development
Personality
psychological well-being
Psychological wellbeing
Psychology
Purpose in life
Self Concept
Social Identification
Studies
Vocation
vocational identity
Vocational interest
Well-being
Work
work personality
Working life
Workplace - psychology
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Summary:The authors examined the impact of the 6 dimensions of psychological well-being on participants' career thoughts, vocational identity, and developmental work personality. Undergraduates (N = 91) completed 4 measures: (a) C. D. Ryff's (1989, 1995) Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB), (b) J. P. Sampson, G. W. Peterson, J. G. Lenz, R. C. Reardon, and D. E. Saunders's (1996) Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI), (c) the Vocational Identity (VI) subscale of J. L. Holland, D. C. Daiger, and G. Power's (1980) My Vocational Situation, and (d) D. R. Strauser and J. M. Keim's (2002) Developmental Work Personality Scale (DWPS). The authors then conducted multiple regression analyses to examine the relations between psychological well-being and the 3 career variables. Results indicated the following: (a) Psychological well-being accounted for a significant portion of the variance in all 3 career variables; (b) scores on the Purpose in Life subscale of the SPWB made a unique contribution to scores on the Commitment Anxiety subscale of the CTI (CTI-CA) and to VI; (c) scores on the Personal Growth subscale of the SPWB made a unique contribution to CTI-CA scores; and (d) scores on the Self-Acceptance and Environmental Mastery subscales of the SPWB each made a unique contribution to DWPS scores.
ISSN:0022-3980
1940-1019
DOI:10.3200/JRLP.142.1.21-36