(2023) Science and education, 4, 36-46. Odessa.
Kateryna Akkaya,
PhD Student at the Department of General Psychology,
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University,
4, Svobody sq., Kharkiv, Ukraine,
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9561-7676
VOCATIONAL IDENTITY RECONSIDERATION AND POSITIVE FUNCTIONING OF STUDENTS: MEDIATION ANALYSIS
SUMMARY:
The article examines the role of professional identity reconsideration in the system of positive functioning of students and identifies the mediators of their connection. The purpose of the study was to investigate the presence and specificity of the mediating effect of meaning in life, authenticity, and sense of agency in the relationship between career self-doubts and commitment flexibility on one hand, and subjective well-being on the other. The sample consisted of 213 students from various specialties. Psychodiagnostic methods such as the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA-19), Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale, Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), Purpose in Life and Self-Acceptance subscales from the Scales of Psychological Well-being (C. Ryff), Authenticity Scale (Wood et al.,, 2008), and The Sense of Agency Scale (Tapal et al., 2017) have been used. As a result of the meditation analysis, it was found that commitment flexibility is a significant (reverse) predictor of meaning in life (β=-0.394, p<0.000, R2=0.155), authenticity (β=-0.319, p<0.000, R2=0.102), and sense of agency (β=-0.293, p<0.000, R2=0.086). Career self-doubts also significantly predict a decrease in meaning in life (β=-0.676, p<0.000, R2=0.457), authenticity (β=-0.521, p<0.000, R2=0.272), and sens of agency (β=-0.494, p<0.000, R2=0.244). In a parallel meditation analysis model, meaning in life was identified as a statistically significant mediator in both cases, showing a reverse effect: -0.211 with a 95% CI [-1.625; -0.695] and -0.337 with a 95% CI [-2.165;-0.940] respectively. It is noted that explaining the non-significant results of mediation for authenticity and sense of agency requires further research.
KEYWORDS:
vocational identity, positive (optimal) functioning, commitment flexibility, identity reconsideration, subjective well-being, authenticity, meaning in life, sense of agency.
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