Abstract
Based on the life design paradigm and career construction adaptation model and on recent directions from the perspective of sustainable and inclusive career guidance, the study aimed at examining the relationship between career adaptability, the tendency to consider systemic challenges to attain sustainable development, and state personal and social hope and their role on the tendency to invest in higher education. The analyses carried out involving 416 Italian high school students found that career adaptability and the tendency to consider systemic challenges in order to attain sustainable development were directly and indirectly, through state personal and social hope, related to the tendency to invest in higher education. The results obtained allowed to provide new contributions to extend results previously described by the life design approach in career development issues and provided useful suggestions for preventive career interventions.
Highlights
During the last 30 years, many different structural and international phenomena have produced transformations and modifications in work’s features and in labor market’s demands, offering new options for workers and putting them in front of challenges and new risks
We firstly analyzed the mono-dimensionality of these three measures using a principal axis factoring (PAF), and we created three parcels for the tendency to consider systemic challenges to attain sustainable development and two parcels for personal and social hope and the tendency to invest in higher education, based on the magnitude of the factor loadings in the PAF
Structural Model In the second step, we tested the direct and indirect relationships from career adaptability and the tendency to consider systemic challenges to attain sustainable development to the tendency to invest in higher education, through the mediational role of state personal and social hope
Summary
During the last 30 years, many different structural and international phenomena have produced transformations and modifications in work’s features and in labor market’s demands, offering new options for workers and putting them in front of challenges and new risks. These changes affect workers’ employment conditions and the ideas and beliefs that young people shape about the labor market and their career trajectories. They have brought a deeply competitive and ambiguous labor market, which involves, mostly among young people, increased undignified jobs, unemployment, job insecurity, and forced career transitions for workers
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