Life Satisfaction, Courage, and Career Adaptability in a Group of Italian Workers

Sara Santilli (), Isabella Valbusa (), Barbara Rinaldi and Maria Cristina Ginevra
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Sara Santilli: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 14, 35131 Padova, Italy
Isabella Valbusa: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 14, 35131 Padova, Italy
Barbara Rinaldi: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 14, 35131 Padova, Italy
Maria Cristina Ginevra: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 14, 35131 Padova, Italy

Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: Today’s work market is both unsteady and unpredictable, and this requires taking urgent and practical actions aiming at creating work opportunities and “better” jobs, promoting a social and solidarity economy, and encouraging the development of moral strength in the workplace. From the Life Design approach perspective, our study examines two variables necessary to cope with the current labor market, courage, and career adaptability, and their role in life satisfaction. Through courage, a full mediational model between life satisfaction and career adaptability was tested in the 525 (291 men and 234 women) employees involved in the present study. Results support the mediational model. Mainly, life satisfaction was predicted indirectly by career adaptability through courage. Such outcome has important implications for practice and highlights the need to support workers in planning their life design by developing career adaptability and workers’ voluntary feeling to act, according to different levels of fear, when facing a threat to the achievement of a significant result or objective, which in turn will positively influence their feelings of life satisfaction.

Keywords: life satisfaction; courage; career adaptability; employees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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