Abstract
The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between college graduates’ dual self-consciousness, job search clarity and perceived stress, and reveal the mediating role of perceived stress between dual self-consciousness and job search clarity. In this study, 467 college graduates were investigated using the Dual Self-Consciousness Scale, Job Search Clarity Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale. After controlling for gender, age, and region, the results revealed that: (1) private self-consciousness has a significant positive predictive effect on job search clarity; (2) perceived stress has a significant negative predictive effect on job search clarity; (3) perceived stress plays partial mediation effects between private self-consciousness and job search clarity; (4) perceived stress plays complete mediation effects between public self-consciousness and job search clarity; (5) perceived stress has suppressing effects between public self-consciousness and job search clarity.
Highlights
With the increasing number of college graduates year by year, employment competition is becoming increasingly fierce
3.2 Descriptive Statistical Analysis Compared with previous studies, the average value of the total score of self-awareness of college graduates in this study is significantly lower than the research results of Chen et al [27] (t = −3.078, p < 0.001); there was no significant difference between the average value of the total score of public selfawareness and this study (t = −1.481, p > 0.05)
Perceived stress is significantly negatively correlated with private self-consciousness, positively correlated with public private self-consciousness, and negatively correlated with job search clarity
Summary
With the increasing number of college graduates year by year, employment competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Job hunting is a process of goal orientation, motivation and self-regulation [3]; at the core the job search process is one’s goal This is because goals can transform people’s needs into motivation, provide an incentive effect, point out the direction of efforts and reference standards for individual behavior, and facilitate individuals to adjust and modify their behavior in time, conducive to job success [4]. Having clarity and a specific understanding of what one is looking for in a future job can positively impact the intensity, efficiency and results of job search behavior [8,9,10] as well as create a stronger foundation for individual career development
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