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Article - Life Satisfaction, Courage, and Career Adaptability in a Group of Italian Workers Volume 13, Isu 2, Nomor Artikel 106
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.
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