Considering that adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) experience many barriers and challenges in designing and living a satisfactory life, based on Life Design paradigm, this study aimed at analyzing the direct and indirect effect of career adaptability, through hope, on life satisfaction in a sample of individuals with SUD compared to a sample of individuals without SUD. In this study, a sample of 185 adults with and 185 adults without SUD was involved and different measures to assess career adaptability (Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Italian Form; Soresi, Nota, & Ferrari; 2012), hope (The Adult Hope Scale) and life satisfaction (The Satisfaction with Life Scale) were used. Multigroup structural analyses were conducted to test the group differences in the direct and indirect effects model hypothesized. Results showed that career adaptability is indirectly, through hope, related to life satisfaction across two groups. These results have important implications for practice and emphasize the need to promoting career adaptability and hope in people with SUD to improve their life satisfaction that is an important diagnostic and outcome criteria in substance use disorder issues.

考虑到患有物质使用障碍 (SUD) 的成年人在设计和过上令人满意的生活方面遇到了许多障碍和挑战，基于生活设计范式，本研究旨在分析职业适应性通过希望对生活满意度的直接和间接影响。 SUD 个体样本与非 SUD 个体样本的比较。在这项研究中，涉及 185 名患有 SUD 的成年人和 185 名没有 SUD 的成年人的样本，并采用不同的措施来评估职业适应性（职业适应能力量表 - 意大利形式；Soresi、Nota 和 Ferrari；2012）、希望（成人希望量表））和生活满意度（生活满意度量表）被使用。进行了多组结构分析以测试假设的直接和间接影响模型中的组差异。结果表明，职业适应性通过希望与两组的生活满意度间接相关。这些结果对实践具有重要意义，并强调需要提高 SUD 患者的职业适应性和希望，以提高他们的生活满意度，这是物质使用障碍问题的重要诊断和结果标准。