Career optimism mediates the effect of personality on teachers’ career engagement
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Article Title | Career optimism mediates the effect of personality on teachers’ career engagement |
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ERA Journal ID | 6360 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | McIlveen, Peter (Author) and Perera, Harsha N. (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Career Assessment |
Journal Citation | 24 (4), pp. 623-636 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
Place of Publication | Thousand Oaks, CA. United States |
ISSN | 1069-0727 |
1552-4590 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072715616059 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1069072715616059 |
Abstract | Retaining teachers in the workforce is a major social issue as this vital profession suffers from low levels of prestige and high levels of attrition. This article is a report on research into the psychological predictors of career engagement in pre-service and practicing teachers (N = 364). It was hypothesized that teachers’ conscientiousness and neuroticism would predict higher and lower career engagement, respectively, both directly and indirectly via career optimism. Structural equation modeling affirmed that career optimism mediated the relationships of conscientiousness and neuroticism with career engagement. The current findings highlight the need to investigate the contribution of career optimism to teachers’ career engagement to capitalize on adaptive personality processes and mitigate the deleterious effects of negative emotionality. |
Keywords | teachers; conscientiousness; neuroticism; teacher engagement; career satisfaction; optimism; work motivation; career development; Australia |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390307. Teacher education and professional development of educators |
390404. Educational counselling | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q32y0/career-optimism-mediates-the-effect-of-personality-on-teachers-career-engagement
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