Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect proactivity on relationship between protean career attitude and proactive career behavior for enterprising career development of university students. Methods For this purpose, the survey was conducted on 336 participants enrolled in 22 universities. The collected data of 323 participants were analyzed with descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, moderated regression analysis was conducted with SPSS 24.0. program and Process Macro 1. Results Following are the major results of this study. First, there was a positive correlation between protean career attitude and proactive career behavior, proactivity and proactive career behavior. Second, a moderating effect of proactivity was found on the relationship between protean career attitude and proactive career behavior. Conclusions These result means that the influence of protean career attitude Specifically, when university students are lack of proactivity, protean career played an important role in proactivity career behavior. But high level group of proactivity showed that protean career didn’t play an important role in proactivity career behavior. Last, the lower proactivity should improve their protean career attitude, the higher proactivity should seek various way to engage proactive career behavior. This study confirmed the importance of proactivity in the process of proactive career behavior and discussed the implications of support services required for career development and enhancement of university students.

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