Protean Career Orientation and Career Goal Development: Do they Predict Engineer's Psychological Well-being?

Engineers are known to have a strong need for growth and personal development as compared with professionals. However, the conflict between being ambitious, having their own goals and expectation, and work demand structured by the organization have influenced their well-being. Thus, it is timely to conduct study to find out whether protean career orientation and career goal development predict the psychological well-being among Malaysian engineers. The results in this study provided useful information on the positive influence of protean career orientation on psychological well-being of engineers. The results further showed that career goal development positively influenced psychological well-being.