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Vocational Identity as a Mediator of the Relationship between Core Self‐Evaluations and Life and Job Satisfaction
Author(s) -
Hirschi Andreas
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2011.00450.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , psychology , life satisfaction , core self evaluations , identity (music) , job satisfaction , personality , social psychology , relation (database) , job attitude , job performance , pedagogy , physics , computer science , acoustics , database
This study investigated whether vocational identity achievement mediates the relation between basic personality dispositions (i.e. core self‐evaluations) and career and well‐being outcomes in terms of job and life satisfaction. Two studies with Swiss adolescents were conducted. Study 1 ( N = 310) investigated students in eighth grade, prior to making the transition to vocational education and training (VET); it showed that vocational identity related positively to life satisfaction but that this relationship disappeared once core self‐evaluations were controlled. Study 2 ( N = 150) investigated students in their second year of VET; it showed that job satisfaction was unrelated to identity and self‐evaluations. However, identity fully mediated the relation between self‐evaluations and life satisfaction.