THE EFFECT OF LEARNING GOAL ORIENTATION ON SELF-PERCEIVED EMPLOYABILITY WITH CAREER ADAPTABILITY AS A MEDIATOR

Abstract

Learning goal orientation is an individual characteristic that relatively stable and characterized by efforts to develop competence and perseverance in the face of obstacles (Dweck, 1986). A study shows that learning goal orientation is related to career adaptability (Tolentino et al., 2014), but few studies shows the relationship between learning goal orientation and career outcomes such as self-perceived employability. This study investigates the role of career adaptability on mediating the effect of learning goal orientation and self-perceived employability. Participants of this study were 69 college students from various disciplines and several universities in Indonesia. Data were collected using Learning Goal Orientation scale (Button et al., 1996), The Career Adapt-Abilities Scales Form 2.0 (Savickas & Profeli, 2012), and Student Self-Perceived Employability (Rothwell et al., 2009). Overall, the findings of this study show that career adaptability plays a mediating role in the effect of learning goal orientation on self-perceived employability.

Keywords

• Learning goal orientation
• career
• adaptability
• self-perceived employability