Taken altogether, research conducted to date demonstrates the influence career adaptability resources have on career
development and adjustment in a number of different contexts. We propose that future work self provides the motivation to do
what is needed to bring about a desired future and that career adaptability provides the psychosocial resources that increase the
likelihood of engaging necessary behaviors to attain a desired occupational outcome. Accordingly, the current study seeks to
examine the role of career adaptability resources in terms of its incremental contribution in the engagement of proactive career
behaviors over and above future work self. The career adaptability component of career construction theory articulates that specific
proactive career behaviors could be predicted in relation to the adaptability dimensions. Herein, we consider the additive effect of
specific adaptability dimensions in the prediction of proactive career behaviors over that of the motivational influence of future
career self salience.