

While the path associated with curiosity, interest, and engagement during learning and research has remained essentially the A theoretical model for curiosity, interest and engagement in new media technology-pervasive learningĮnvironments is advanced, taking into consideration personal, situational and contextual factors as influencing variables. Curiosity is defined in this paper in a way which incorporates the concomitant constructs This paper identifies the need for developing new ways to study curiosity in the context of today’s pervasive technologiesĪnd unprecedented information access. A finding this research was able to identify is that strategic thinking does not significantly impact career success within the Sri Lankan context. The research found that out of three factors, namely, learning curiosity, strategic thinking, and resilience only curiosity and resilience have a statically significant impact on career success in Sri Lanka. The study discovered that increasing the Lifelong-learning mindset attitude by one unit increases the career success of accounting professionals by 77.9 Original Research Article Wijenayake et al. According to the findings, there is a significant impact on career success from a lifelong-learning mindset, and a positive relationship between lifelong-learning mindset and career success with a Pearson Correlation Coefficient of +.729. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data and interpret the findings. Adopting an online questionnaire survey strategy and convenience sampling method, primary data was collected from a sample of 384 respondents who are accounting professionals in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. The study was conducted in SLIIT Business School, SLIIT, Sri Lanka during the time period between February to October 2021. By bridging the lacuna in existing research studies and determining the relationship between lifelong mindset and career success in the Sri Lankan context, this study tries to fulfill the empirical gap and contribute new knowledge. Therefore, this conceptual query is carried out to warrant scholarly investigation that encapsulates the impact of a lifelong-learning mindset on the career success of accounting professionals in Sri Lanka. Within the Sri Lankan context, there is a lack of evidence to determine this concept and only have the impression that a lifelong-learning mindset positively impacts career success.

The notion that the lifelong-learning concept bolsters career success is one of the popular and debated research areas in the world.
