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Abstract: In the atmosphere of high rate of unemployment, to focus on career choice of college senior students is the issue worthy to be concerned about.The main purpose of this study was to investigate career self-efficacy, career barrier and coping strategies among college senior students.This study conducts the survey among 349 law and educational college senior students as subjects.The instruments of this study include Career Self-Efficacy Scale,Career Barrier Scale and Coping Scale. The data were analyzed by frequency distribution, t-test, Pearson product-moment correlation and stepwise regression analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1.Career Self-efficacy of college senior students was higher than the average. 2.The major career barriers college senior students encounter were hesitate action barriers. 3.The college senior students mostly adopted positive emotion-focused coping. 4.There were significant differences in career barriers between gender,departments and public/private schools. 5.There were significant differences in career self-efficacy, career barrier and coping strategies between different public/private schools. 6.There were significant negative correlations among career self-efficacy and career barriers. 7.There were significant correlations between career self- efficacy and problem-focused coping. 8.There were positive correlations between career barriers and “positive problem-focused coping” and there were negative correlations between career barriers and “negative problem-focused coping”. Besides,the bigger “characteristics expression barriers”, “information search barriers”, “information search barriers”, and “learning problem barriers” were, the less “positive emotion-focused coping” was used. And there were more relevance among “learning situation barriers”,“learning problem barriers” and emotion-focused coping. 9.Career self-efficacy, subject selection barriers, will weak barriers, learning situation barriers and information search barriers were significant predictors of “positive problem-focused coping”. Will weak barriers, characteristics expression barriers, career self-efficacy, learning situation barriers and subject selection barriers were significant predictors for “negative problem-focused coping”. Learning problem barriers, characteristics expression barriers and will weak barriers were significant predictors for “positive emotion-focused coping”. Learning problem barriers, subject selection barriers, and characteristics expression barriers were significant predictors for “negative emotion-focused coping”. According to the results,implications for career counseling and future researchs were provided

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