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The Role of the Psychological Contract in the Relationship Between Career Adjustment Ability and the Perception of Employability

Vasfi Kahya(DUMLUPINAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-2154-5689
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Based on these results, career adaptation ability positively affects psychological contract, and psychological contract affects employability perception; also, based on the results that career adaptation ability positively affects employability perception, this relationship can occur through psychological capital.

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Abstract The concept of employability has been more focused on in recent years. The concept of perceived employability expresses individuals' control over their lives and careers. Career adaptability means a hierarchical and multidimensional construct, including resources of control, concern, confidence, and curiosity. Employability is a sense of career adaptability in the context of individuals' social construct of managing career transitions. A mutually positive interaction between employability, psychological capital, and subjective well-being can exist. Using Savickas's career construction theory, the current study investigated the relationship between employability and career adaptability and the intermediary effect of the psychological contract. Based on these results, career adaptation ability positively affects psychological contract, and psychological contract affects employability perception; also, based on the results that career adaptation ability positively affects employability perception, this relationship can occur through psychological capital.

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Abstract The concept of employability has been more focused on in recent years. The concept of perceived employability expresses individuals' control over their lives and careers. Career adaptability means a hierarchical and multidimensional construct, including resources of control, concern, confidence, and curiosity. Employability is a sense of career adaptability in the context of individuals' social construct of managing career transitions. A mutually positive interaction between employability, psychological capital, and subjective well-being can exist. Using Savickas's career construction theory, the current study investigated the relationship between employability and career adaptability and the intermediary effect of the psychological contract. Based on these results, career adaptation ability positively affects psychological contract, and psychological contract affects employability perception; also, based on the results that career adaptation ability positively affects employability perception, this relationship can occur through psychological capital.

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Kahya, V. (2025). The Role of the Psychological Contract in the Relationship Between Career Adjustment Ability and the Perception of Employability. Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Volume: 12 Issue: 1. https://doi.org/10.30798/makuiibf.1469170

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