Abstract:
This study investigates the relationship between proactive personality and career
satisfaction, and the mediating effect of career planning of selected streams (commerce,
Arts' Science and Agriculture) in Eastern university, Sri Lanka. This study was
implemented proactive personality is as the independent variable and career satisfaction is
as the dependent variable- Career planning functioned as a mediator between the two
variables' Thus' the study objectives are to identify the level of proactive personality, career
planning and career satisfaction of selected streams in graduates, to identify the
relationships among proactive personality, career planning and career satisfaction of the
graduates' and to explore the mediating role of career planning in the relationship between
proactive personality and career satisfaction of the graduates.
Using a structured questionnaire, the data were collected from 300 graduates of four
selected streams (commerce, Arts, Science and Agriculture) in Eastern university, Sri
Lanka' And the collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation,
regression and mediating analyses. A quantitative survey instrument was designed to
analyze their opinions' Quantitative survey instrument design was adopted as the Most cost
efficient for this research. Random sampling method was utilized. As far as the research
time frame was concerned, it was performed in a cross-sectional manner and also, the
survey was the main instrument for data collection and it was designed in a .,5
- point
Likert's scale".
The findings reveal that the proactive personality and career planning and career
satisfaction are in high level among the respondents of past out graduates. The findings of
the study also show that there is a positive relationship between the proactive personality
and career satisfaction, the strong positive relationship between the proactive personality,
and career planning and the strong positive relationship between career satisfaction and
career planning' career planning has been found to a full mediating effect on the
relationship between proactive personality and career satisfaction.
