The Relationship between College Students’ Resilience and Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

Liman Pang,Tingting Fang,Xiu Wang,Fan Liu,Huaruo Chen,Ya Wen

doi:10.4236/psych.2021.126053

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Abstract

The arrival of the post-epidemic era has brought more uncertainties to college students’ job search and employment. Therefore, it is necessary to help students how to make career choices in an uncertain environment. Based on the career adaptation model theory, this research proposes a relationship model of resilience, career adaptability, and career decision-making difficulties. Through a survey of 666 Chinese college students, it is found that resilience and career adaptability can reduce students’ career decision-making difficulties. Career adaptability plays a mediating role between resilience and career decision-making difficulties. Finally, it points out the importance of paying attention to the positive factors of students in career decision-making and puts forward some suggestions.

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According to statistics from the Ministry of Education of China, there will be 8.74 million college graduates in China in 2020
Resilient people are usually optimistic about life, have high life energy, are open to new experiences and curiosity, and have an internal control center (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004). (Semmer, 2006) put forward a similar view, that individuals with high resilience are optimistic about the world, and difficult and stressful situations are usually seen as challenges and new experiences
Participating in this sample survey, the only child of the family accounted for 25.2%, and the non-only child of the family accounted for 74.8%

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According to statistics from the Ministry of Education of China, there will be 8.74 million college graduates in China in 2020. Affected by multiple factors such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic and economic downward pressure, the employment situation of college graduates is not optimistic In such a job search process with various uncertain factors, the ability required to cope with various changes includes some objective factors and basic knowledge and skills and requires individuals to have some abilities and qualities with their unique advantages, such as resilience, career adaptability (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004; Savickas et al, 2009). Resilience as a positive advantage ability can predict an individual’s career decision-making level

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