Distinct Paths to Protean Career Attitude: Family and Peer Support as Mediated by Grit Among Emerging Filipino Adults

While career development is almost identical to personal development, the emerging adults have been more active in finding the best career for them in the recent years (Benardo & Salanga, 2019). Social cognitive career theory (SSCT) offered concepts such as social factors and personal factors that can explain the dynamics of career attitudes. Following the arguments of the theory, 415 respondents answered a scale on social support, a measure or grit, and a scale of protean career attitude to test the assumption of the hypothesis derived from SSCT. Although personal factor such as grit and social support correlated with protean career attitude, the results showed a different path of career attitudes depending on its source. While grit fully mediated family support and protean career attitudes, peer support directly predicted protean career attitudes without any mediation from grit. This suggest that there were different kinds of support emerging adults need when it come to their family and that of their peers. The outcome of this study can serve as a basis for career development program that both workers and employers can benefit from.