Understanding how career identity as a moderator shapes the relationship between career commitment and success: a career construction theory perspective

Building on career construction theory (CCT), this research extends career success literature on how career identity as a moderator shapes career commitment and success linkage. Using a time-lagged survey, we recruited 211 bank employees and validated a theorized research model in AMOS. The findings illustrate that career commitment (CC) positively relates to objective career success (OCS) and subjective career success (SCS). In addition, the association between CC and OCS (salary) was stronger for employees with high levels of career identity (CI), and the association between CC and SCS (satisfaction) was significantly more favorable for employees with high levels of CI than low. Thus, a higher level of CI is desirable for career success. Finally, our research contributes to CCT by empirically establishing the linkage between CC and career success, accounting for the role of CI.