College Education Outcome Expectation and Proactive Personality as Predictors of Chinese College Students' Learning Motivation, Career Adaptability as a Mediator

Abstract

This research aimed to examine the relationships between college education outcome expectation, proactive personality, career adaptability and learning motivation. 576 Chinese college students participated in this study. The results were as follows: (1)Significant differences between college students with and without siblings were found in the dimension of career adaptability's total score, and also in concern, control, curiosity and confidence dimension of career adaptability, as well as in the total score of learning motivation and its dimension of intrinsic motivation; whereas no significant difference existed in college education outcome expectation and proactive personality between students with and without siblings; (2)Structural equation modeling revealed that both college education outcome expectation and proactive personality significantly predicted learning motivation; (3)Career adaptability partially mediated the influence of college education outcome expectation and proactive personality on learning motivation. According to these findings, suggestions for college education, especially on career development education and learning motivation stimulating, were proposed and discussed.