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Title: Controlling Your Environment and Yourself: Implications for Career Success
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1. Converse, Patrick D.
Pathak, Jaya
DePaul-Haddock, Anne Marie
Gotlib, Tomer
Merbedone, Matthew
Controlling Your Environment and Yourself: Implications for Career Success
Journal of Vocational Behavior 80,1 (February 2012): 148-159.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879111000996
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Career Patterns; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Job Satisfaction; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Occupational Prestige; Self-Regulation/Self-Control

Given the complex and rapidly changing nature of the current work environment, individuals' capabilities to effectively influence their environment and regulate their behavior may be critical to career success. Drawing from the model of emergent interactive agency (Bandura, 1989), the current research examines this perspective, focusing on proactive personality and self-control as predictors of extrinsic and intrinsic career success. Although some studies have investigated proactive personality as a predictor of success, less research has focused on factors involved in this relationship and very little work has examined self-control in the context of career success. Study 1 involved a cross-sectional design with 249 full-time employees who completed measures assessing personality and career-related variables. Study 2 involved a longitudinal design with 1568 individuals who were rated on self-control during childhood and completed career-related measures approximately 20 years later. Study 1 results indicated proactive personality and self-control related to extrinsic career success (salary and occupational prestige) through educational attainment. Study 2 results indicated self-control related to extrinsic career success (salary and occupational prestige) through educational attainment and intrinsic career success (career satisfaction) through occupational opportunity for achievement. These findings contribute to the knowledge base regarding career success by highlighting the relevance of active control tendencies that are externally focused (proactive personality) as well as those that are internally focused (self-control) and identifying key factors linking these traits to career success.
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Converse, Patrick D., Jaya Pathak, Anne Marie DePaul-Haddock, Tomer Gotlib and Matthew Merbedone. "Controlling Your Environment and Yourself: Implications for Career Success." Journal of Vocational Behavior 80,1 (February 2012): 148-159.