Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and correlations of study variables.

	1	2	3	4
1.Core self-evaluations	0.734
2.Protean career attitudes	0.448**	0.722
3.Career adaptability	0.454**	0.557**	0.755
4.Meritocratic beliefs	0.259**	0.351**	0.311**	0.909
Mean	3.718	3.647	3.922	4.981
SD	0.573	0.533	0.581	0.879

N = 855.

^**p < 0.01.The bold values represent the square roots of the average variance extracted (AVE) value for each variable.