Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal: Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volume number: 126

ISSN: 0001-8791

eISSN: 1095-9084

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103526

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
Career adaptability as a resource and adaptation as a process are essential concepts in career research and counseling, inspired by and building on a long tradition in vocational psychology. Career proactivity, a sub-facet of proactive work behavior in general, comes from industrial- and organizational psychology and is grounded in the literature on self-regulation. The current paper aims to compare these literatures, highlighting communalities and differences in their conceptual backgrounds, implied assumptions, and behaviors studied. Given how these literatures complement rather than contradict one another, we then integrate both literatures into a common framework based on the Rubicon model, a self-regulatory model of action phases. With this, we strive to highlight differences and communalities, potential blind spots and areas where either literature may learn from the other as well as directions for future research that might be beneficial for both literatures and the study of career related action overall.

Harvard Citation style: Klehe, U., Fasbender, U. and van der Horst, A. (2021) Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 126, Article 103526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103526

APA Citation style: Klehe, U., Fasbender, U., & van der Horst, A. (2021). Going full circle: Integrating research on career adaptation and proactivity. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 126, Article 103526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103526