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Mediated Effects of Strengths Use and Career Identity in the Relationship between Charter Strength and Career Adaptability of University Students
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Abstract
This research examines the relationship between character strength, strengths use, career identity and career adaptability of university students, and confirms the meditating effects of strengths use and career identity in the relationship between character strength and career adaptability. The subjects were 799 students from four-year universities. Four measurements tool were used: character strength, strengths use, career identity and career adaptability. A correlation analysis of the collected data was then conducted. A structural equation model was used to indicate the mediating effects. The significance of the mediating effect and multiple mediating effects was verified using the bootstrapping method of a phantom model approach. Results of the research are as follows. First, there was a positive relationship among self-oriented and other-oriented character strengths, strengths use, career identity, and career adaptability of university students. The higher their self-oriented and other-oriented character strengths were, the stronger the level of their strengths use, career identity, and career adaptability. Second, in respect to the relationship among self-oriented and other-oriented character strengths and career adaptability, strengths use and career identity had significant mediating effects. Third, strengths use went through the career identity and had subsequent multiple mediating effects on career adaptability in the relationships between self-oriented and other-oriented character strengths and career adaptability. Through this study, it was possible to identify significant variables in improving the career adaptability of university students and to provide necessary basic data for the development of career education programs for university students.