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    Core Self-Evaluations, Vocational Exploration, Career Adaptability and Employability in Ordinary Level Education.
    (2023) Sendagire, Robert
    The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between core self-evaluations, vocational exploration, career adaptability and employability of students in O-Level Education among Vocational Secondary Schools in Uganda. The study was based on four objectives; to examine the relationship between core self-evaluations and career adaptability; to investigate the relationship between vocational exploration and career adaptability; to examine the relationship between career adaptability and employability and lastly to determine the mediating role of career adaptability in the relationship between core self-evaluations, vocational exploration and employability of students in O-Level Education among Vocational Secondary Schools in Uganda. A cross-sectional survey design that applied a quantitative approach to the study was adopted to capture views, attitude and opinions of various respondents. Questionnaires were used to source quantitative information. The population of the study was 1386 students who went through respective selected Vocational Secondary Schools in Uganda and the sample size was 302 determined by applying Krejcie and Morgan (1970). Simple random sampling method was used for selection of respondents and data was analyzed using SPSS V21 to establish the reliability, correlation and regression results. MedGraph were used to graphically show the mediation effect as well as to determine direct, indirect and total effects of all variables. The correlation results showed an existence of a significant and positive association between core-self evaluation and employability (r=.371, p<0.01). There was a significant and positive association between vocational exploration and employability (r=.424, p<0.01) and then, there also existed a significant and positive association between career adaptability and employability (r=.409, p<0.01).The regression results however revealed that F=16.738, Sig<0.05 in relation to the independent variables of core-self evaluation, vocational exploration and career adaptability which affirmed the statistical significant predictability of these variables to be associated with the dependent variable and results further indicated core-self evaluation (beta=.037, p<0.05); vocational exploration (beta=.026, p<0.05) and career adaptability (beta=.406, p<0.05), all combined together are significant predictors of employability and could explain 15.8% of variance in employability of students in O-Level Education among Vocational Secondary Schools in Uganda. Mediation results revealed that perceived career adaptability significantly mediates the relationship between core-self evaluation, vocational exploration and employability. After the intervention of the mediating variable, the relationship between core-self evaluation, vocational exploration and employability increases. Consequently, the researcher recommended career counselors among Vocational Senior Secondary Schools in Uganda to attempt to identify the state of adaptive readiness of different student through standardized assessments. Counselors should offer interventions that aim to increase their adaptability or directly facilitate their adaptive attitudes and behaviors. Practitioners and career counselors should also design interventions related to specific indicators of low adaptability in order to better engage students in self-improvement activities for optimal career adaptability.