Career Adaptability Research: A Literature Review with Scientific Knowledge Mapping in Web of Science

Huaruo Chen, Tingting Fang, Fan Liu, Liman Pang, Ya Wen, Shi Chen and Xueying Gu
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Huaruo Chen: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Tingting Fang: School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Fan Liu: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Liman Pang: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Ya Wen: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Shi Chen: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
Xueying Gu: School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 16, 1-21

Abstract: With the rapid development of society and technology, personal adaptability is becoming more and more important. Learning how to adapt to a changing world is becoming one of the necessary conditions for success. Career adaptability can help individuals to smoothly adapt to changes when coping with their career roles, and maintain their ability to balance their career roles, which will affect their important psychological resources for career development and achieve more meaning in life. In recent years, career adaptability has gradually attracted the attention of researchers. Therefore, in order to explore the main factors, such as research focus, the main researchers, its evolution, and the important results of career adaptability in the last ten years, this study used the scientific knowledge mapping software CiteSpace as a research tool, and select related articles from the Web of Science between 2010 to 2020 under the theme of “career adaptability” for data analysis, which can help future researchers to understand current and future career adaptability research and control the research direction of career adaptability. The results of this research indicate that there are direct or indirect connections between different themes, such as the career adaptability scale, career construction, positive personalities, and so on, but few articles integrate multiple research topics. At the same time, the main researchers, research frontiers and network relationships were also obtained. Based on the above findings, the correlative main concept, theoretical structure, evolution, and research progress of career adaptability in the past ten years are discussed.

Keywords: career adaptability; literature review; scientific knowledge mapping; CiteSpace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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