Abstract
Hope is increasingly recognized as an important psychological resource for career development yet empirical research is on its functioning in this domain is sparse. The present paper investigated among two independent samples of working professionals (N=242) and university students (N=1,309) how dispositional hope in terms of agency and pathways thinking is related to career decidedness, planning, and self-efficacy beliefs and whether these more proximal career attitudes would mediate the effects of hope on proactive career behaviors. The results showed that within both samples both dimensions of hope were positively correlated with all career variables. However, the mediation model was only confirmed among students. The results suggest that hope-agency has stronger direct effects on proactive career behaviors than hope-pathways and that hope affects career development differently among students and employees.
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