Counselors' Perceived Person-Environment Fit and Career Satisfaction

• Published in: The Career development quarterly Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 145 - 151
• Main Authors: Rehfuss, Mark C., Gambrell, Crista E., Meyer, Dixie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012; Wiley-Blackwell; National Career Development Association
• Subjects: Adult Career Concerns Inventory; Analysis; Career development; Career development planning; Careers; Correlation; Correlational studies; Counseling; Counselor Attitudes; Counselor Certification; Counselor Characteristics; Counselor education; Counselor Educators; Counselor Training; Counselors; Creativity; Doctoral Degrees; Education; Electronic Mail; Employees; Job Satisfaction; Job Skills; Masters Degrees; Multiple Regression Analysis; Online Surveys; Perceptions; Quality of Working Life; Resistance (Psychology); School Counselors; Specialization; Statistical Analysis; Studies; Supervision; Vocational Adjustment; Work Attitudes; Work Environment; United States
• ISSN: 0889-4019; 2161-0045
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2012.00012.x

This correlational study examined the relationship between career satisfaction and person–organization, demands–abilities, and needs–supplies fit with counselors (N= 464) using the Perceived Job Fit instrument (Cable & DeRue, 2002) and a scale of career satisfaction adapted from the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Myers, & Jordaan, 1988). Using a linear, multiple regression analysis, the authors found that person–organization fit (p= .01) and needs–supplies fit (p= .00) were both positively related to career satisfaction and that there was no relationship between demands–abilities fit and career satisfaction.