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

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 162 - 178, 31.03.2025

Vasfi Kahya

https://doi.org/10.30798/makuiibf.1469170

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Employability, Career Adjustment Ability, Psychological Contract

Ethical Statement

Ethics Committee approval was not required for this study. The author declares that the study was conducted in accordance with research and publication ethics. The author confirms that no part of the study was generated, either wholly or in part, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. The author declares that there are no financial conflicts of interest involving any institution, organization, or individual associated with this article. The author affirms that the entire research process was conducted solely by them.

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