Trauma needs special attention during the sensitive period of adolescence, which already involves its own psychological challenges and vocational tasks. Coping with trauma requires adaptation. From the perspective of the career construction model of adaptation, career adaptability provides psycho-social resources that promote adaptation. Using this model, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality and post-traumatic growth via career adaptability. A total of 266 Iranian adolescents who had experienced the sudden death of a parent recruited. They then completed the Big Five Questionnaire, Post-traumatic Growth Inventory, and Career Adapt-abilities Scale. The results showed career adaptability partially mediated the relationship between neuroticism and openness and post-traumatic growth. In addition, the findings confirmed the full mediator role of career adaptability in the relationship between conscientiousness and post-traumatic growth. The results also indicated a direct relationship between extraversion and post-traumatic growth, but no relationship between agreeableness and post-traumatic growth. These results emphasized the essential role of career adaptability in empowering traumatized adolescents.

青春期敏感期的创伤需要特别关注，这已经涉及到其自身的心理挑战和职业任务。应对创伤需要适应。从适应的职业构建模型来看，职业适应提供了促进适应的心理社会资源。使用该模型，本研究的目的是通过职业适应性来调查人格与创伤后成长之间的关系。总共招募了 266 名经历过父母突然去世的伊朗青少年。然后，他们完成了“大五”问卷、创伤后成长量表和职业适应能力量表。结果表明，职业适应性在一定程度上调节了神经质、开放性和创伤后成长之间的关系。此外，研究结果证实了职业适应性在责任心与创伤后成长之间关系中的完全中介作用。结果还表明，外向性与创伤后成长之间存在直接关系，但宜人性与创伤后成长之间没有关系。这些结果强调了职业适应性在增强受创伤青少年能力方面的重要作用。