| Summary: | As fast-track individuals with special knowledge and expertise, engineers have great
expectations and ambitions for their careers and are known for striving for psychological
success and climbing the career ladder. Nevertheless, several factors have influenced the
well-being of engineers, including conflicts between personal goals and expectations with
available advancement opportunities, work autonomy, and work demand. As a result,
engineers in Malaysia are considered to be unhappy workers. This scenario will likely
worsen if little attention is given to researching the engineer's individual well-being.
Thus, it is appropriate to conduct a study that assesses the level of individual well-being
among Malaysian engineers using career goal development as a predictor. This study
applied a self-administered questionnaire to collect data. A total of 500 questions were
distributed to registered professional engineers, and 387 completed questionnaires were
returned for analysis. The measures used in the study were adopted from previous studies
with acceptable reliabilities, and the research hypotheses were investigated through
correlation and path analysis using PLS. The research findings have provided useful
information on the positive influence of protean career orientation on psychological wellbeing. Furthermore, the results showed that career goal development has a positive
influence on individual well-being. The implications of these findings contribute to the
understanding of the process through which career attitude affects individual well-being,
which will be discussed.
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