Relationship between senior schoolchildren’s conscious self-regulation and career adaptability: longitudinal study

Aim. The article reports the data of a longitudinal study investigating the cause-and-effect relationships between conscious self-regulation and career adaptability as general psychological and professionally oriented regulatory resources of a person. The main aim of the study was to study the cause-and-effect relations between the conscious self-regulation and career adaptability in the course of senior schoolchildren’s training, using Russian schools as a sample.

Methodology. 110 Russian schoolchildren took part in a two-wave longitudinal study with an interval of one year in the period of their schooling in the 10th to 11th grades. In each study they were requested to fill in the questionnaire "Self-Regulation Profile Questionnaire – SRPQM 2020" by V.I. Morosanova and the Russian version of the "Career Adaptability Scale" by M. Savikas. The analysis of the collected data was carried out using IBM SPSS Statistics 26 and the R programming language environment.

Results. The dynamics of conscious self-regulation and career adaptability was shown in a sample of Russian schoolchildren at the stage of their education in the 10th and 11th grades. The study confirmed the stability of connections between the conscious self-regulation and career adaptability. The data analysis has revealed the indirect cross-longitudinal effects in the cause-and-effect relationships between the conscious self-regulation and career adaptability.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study is determined by its involvement in developing the fundamental scientific ideas about conscious self-regulation of a per- son in ontogenesis and its focus on identifying the psychological factors that contribute to the professional self-development of a person. The practical significance of the study is related to the diagnostic programs development, development and support of professionally oriented resources of students in the situation of choosing a profession in high school as well as formation of their readiness to master the chosen specialty in higher educational institutions.

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