Career Uncertainty Research Articles

Generating An Insight on Retirement Process of Football Players

The retirement process of professional football players represents a significant life transition that often entails various challenges, including financial instability, career uncertainty, and mental health issues. This article explores the obstacles that retired players may encounter, including the lack of financial literacy and career planning, football-related injuries, and mental health and identity reconstruction issues. By addressing these challenges and implementing proactive financial planning strategies, retired football players can navigate the complexities of retirement more effectively and secure a successful and sustainable future beyond their playing careers. For the provision of psychological support, it is essential for clubs and sports organizations to offer access to mental health resources such as counseling and therapy. Establishing a community for retired athletes can facilitate connections and establish a support network, aiding them in adjusting to their new lives. In terms of physical health, it is crucial to prioritize ongoing medical care and rehabilitation programs. Regular check-ups and availability of physiotherapy can assist in managing chronic conditions and promoting overall well-being. Encouraging retired players to participate in physical activities that they enjoy can also contribute to maintaining fitness and health.

Exploring Vietnamese student experiences of transitioning from high school into a transnational university

ABSTRACT Transnational education (TNE) – a form of education where learners study in a different country to the awarding institution has been increasingly prevalent globally. Vietnam is not an exception. This article explores university transition experiences of TNE students in Vietnam. Thematic analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with TNE students identified eight inter-related transition challenges associated with new learning environments and academic requirements, including English oral communication, freedom, career uncertainty, peer relationships, technology, self-directed learning, time as well as study workload management, and writing skills. Findings also revealed that students used different strategies to cope with transition challenges. Specifically, they applied a self-directed approach to adapt to the new environment and sought support from peers, lecturers, advisors, and the library to overcome transition difficulties. Employing a TNE student transition theoretical framework, this article discusses the role of students’ relationship capital, resilience, and confidence in coping with the transition to university, and proposes transition support across three stages of the student journey: commencement, middle years, and senior years. The paper carries theoretical, policy, and practical implications for enhancing student transition experiences critical to TNE higher education.

Career Transitions and Uncertainty Acceptance

Career Transitions and Uncertainty Acceptance

COVID-19’s Psychological Threats and Future Career Anxiety among University Students

The COVID-19 pandemic brought different intolerable and uncomfortable situations that ruined the students' academic performance, career opportunities, and social lives through depression, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and mental illness. In this study, we examined the psychological threats of the COVID-19 among Egypt’s public-sector university students. We employed quantitative methods in this study and used a questionnaire to collect cross-sectional data. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) results show that Fear of COVID-19 (FoC) has a positive effect of on Depression from COVID-19 (DfC), Future Career Anxiety (FCA) and Uncertainty of COVID-19 (UoC). In addition, DfC and UoC have positive effects on FCA. Finally, DfC and UoC positively mediate the association between FoC and FCA. This study's findings help policymakers and university authorities shape policies to reduce Egypt’s public sector university students ‘psychological problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, this study’s findings assist with the adjustments caused by the complex and rapidly changing pandemic situation.

Empathetic leadership and employees' innovative behavior: examining the roles of career adaptability and uncertainty avoidance.

Career construction theory proposes that adaptivity affects career adapting through career adaptability. However, research on the mechanism of this pathway remains scarce. By applying career construction theory and conservation of resources theory, we hypothesize that career adaptability (concern, control, curiosity, and confidence) mediates the relationship between empathetic leadership (adaptivity) and innovative behavior (career adapting). Moreover, we posit that uncertain avoidance moderates the mediating mechanism. Our study used SPSS23 and bootstrap methods (PROCESS) to test the proposed model. The sample comprised 301 employees from different firms in various industries. In this study, empathetic leadership-5, career adaptability-24, uncertainty avoidance-5, and innovative behavior-6 scales were used to measure empathetic leadership, career adaptability, and uncertainty avoidance. The results revealed that (1) empathetic leadership is positively related to employees' innovative behavior (2) Concern (H2a), control (H2b), curiosity (H2c), and confidence (H2d) mediate the relations between empathetic leadership and employee's innovative behavior (3) Uncertainty avoidance moderates the relationship between empathetic leadership and concern (H3a), control (H3b), curiosity (H3c), and confidence (H3d), such that this relationship is stronger when uncertainty avoidance is higher (4) Uncertainty avoidance moderates the indirect relationship between empathetic leadership and employee innovative behavior through concern (H4a), control (H4b), curiosity (H4c), and confidence (H4d), such that this indirect relationship will be stronger when uncertainty avoidance is high than when it is low. We investigated how empathetic leadership affects innovative behavior. Based on career construction theory and conservation of resources theory, we also tested the hypothesis that concern, control, curiosity, and confidence play mediating roles in linking empathetic leadership (career adaptivity) to innovative behavior (career adapting). In addition, this study found that uncertainty avoidance does not always have negative effects. People with a high uncertainty avoidance tendency may be dependent more on empathetic leadership to improve their career adaptability, which promotes their innovative behavior.

대학생의 진로 불확실성 감소가 진로결정 자기효능감에 미치는 영향

The complexity and uncertainty of modern society changing every minute have enormous impacts on the lives and careers of individuals living in this era. The major changes to the structure of the occupational society driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are increasing uncertainty about careers. In this situation, how college students deal with the career uncertainty they experience works as an important element in their career decisions. This study thus sets out to verify the effects of reduced career uncertainty of college students on their career decision-making self-efficacy.
 In order to reduce career uncertainty, the investigator implemented a group counseling program for careers whose effectiveness on the reduced career uncertainty of college students was verified. The study selected college students in lower graders(freshmen and sophomores) to participate in the program for the research purpose at S University in Chungcheongnam Province. They were divided into 163 experimental groups and 159 control groups. While the experiment group participated in an 11-session program with a 50-minute session once or twice per week, the control group participated in no programs. A survey was conducted before and after the program, and collected data was put into the paired-sample t-test and covariance analysis with the SPSS Win 23.0 program.
 The findings show that the experiment group had reduction effects in all the subfactors of career uncertainty and that the control group showed no statistically significant effects. The experiment group that had reduction effects for career uncertainty made a statistically significant increase in career decision-making self-efficacy, but there were no significant changes to that of the control group. The present study demonstrated that the reduction of career uncertainty as the first measure for the career uncertainty of individuals had positive effects on the enhancement of career decision-making self-efficacy and shed light on causal relations between the reduction of career uncertainty and career decision-making self-efficacy, thus holding its significance. The findings of the study are expected to serve as grounds for plans to provide more effective career decision counseling by examining the relations of psychological factors in college students that have difficulties with their career decisions due to the uncertainty of their future.

Interested to start a venture but worried about the future: Investigating the role of resilience in fear of career uncertainty and entrepreneurial intention

Entrepreneurship is inherently characterised by immense uncertainty. Thereby, fear becomes an obvious experience and poses a significant threat to entrepreneurial intention (EI). This study aimed to extend this understanding by exploring how specific fears, such as fear of career uncertainty and fear of perceived inability, affect EI and how resilience impacts these fears and their interaction with EI. This study tested a mediation model on a sample of young university students in Bangladesh (n = 553), using a two-phase survey (before and after the COVID-19 pandemic) and applying the partial least squares – structural equation model in Smart PLS 4. The findings indicated that fear of career uncertainty had a significant negative influence, and resilience had a significant positive influence on EI. Additionally, resilience reduced both fear of career uncertainty and fear of perceived inability and, transformed fear of career uncertainty into a positive driver toward EI. In contrast to the extant evidence that suggested fear as a threat to EI, this study indicated that not all forms of fear are detrimental to EI and that experience of fear can be mitigated. This study suggested that resilient students can overcome fear concerning their careers and focus on establishing new ventures.

Precarious employment as a prerequisite for career surfing

The subject of the study is the conceptualization of the phenomenon of career surfing and precarization of labor as a prerequisite for its manifestation. The object of the study is the phenomena of precarious employment and career surfing. The authors consider in detail such aspects of the topic as the role of career surfing in the perspective of the concept of fluid modernity; multidimensional manifestations of career surfing, as a result of which generalization the types of precarization are highlighted (change of job, type of work, sphere of work, directions of professional or career development; search and evaluation of vacancies or employers, areas of professional training and/or educational institutions; transnational career surfing); the ambivalent nature of career surfing, including both positive and negative manifestations; the interrelationships and qualitative differences of career surfing with the phenomena of social surfing and labor mobility. To achieve the goal, conceptual and theoretical analysis, subject-categorical analysis, systematization, generalization of scientific research results and social practice data were used. The design included solving the following tasks: identification of essential features and varieties of career surfing manifestations; differentiation of career surfing with a number of similar concepts characterizing the instability of career development; systematization of the causes and problems of studying career surfing. The main conclusions of the study are: 1) Career surfing is a multifaceted phenomenon that consists in changing the trajectory of professional career development. The types of career surfing include changing and/or searching for: a job, position, type of work, profession, specialty, sphere or direction of professional or career development. Thus, precarization of labor illustrates the manifestation of career surfing; 2) In methodological terms, career surfing is a social and psychological construct that has deep connections with the constructs of social surfing, mobility, fluid modernity, etc.; 3) The reasons for the expansion and development of career surfing are diverse and include: transformation of workplaces and types of work (including digitalization), the development of flexible forms of employment, the expansion of geographical and social migrations, etc.; 4) Career surfing is ambivalent in its social role and includes both constructive consequences (for example, coping with situations of career and social uncertainty) and destructive ones. The novelty of the research lies in the author's generalization of the results of the theoretical and methodological analysis of the studied phenomena and the justification of the definition of career surfing.

Prevalent factors of career uncertainties among Ghanaian senior high school students

Research has shown that career uncertainty is a major issue that distorts the career trajectories of many adolescents, specifically senior high school students, as many of them are unable to make career decisions that will place them on a firm path of career development. The study explored the most prevalent factors of career uncertainty related to Ghanaian high school students. The research design employed was a descriptive survey, and 426 students were selected for participation by means of multi-stage sampling. Data were gathered with a four-point Likert-type scale questionnaire on career uncertainty for senior high school students. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics. The results depicted that, among all the factors investigated to determine the career uncertainty of senior high school students, self-awareness, fear and anxiety in decision-making, inadequate career information, inadequate career counselling, peer pressure, family interference, and academic accomplishment challenges were the most prevalent factors of career uncertainty. The recommendations made were that school guidance coordinators need to be sensitive to issues of self-awareness, fear, and anxiety in decision-making, inadequate career information, inadequate career counselling, peer pressure, family interference, and academic accomplishment challenges throughout counselling sessions to facilitate well-informed and wise career decisions. It was recommended that all stakeholders in Ghana’s educational sector collaborate to formulate and implement policies that encourage students to plan, develop, and make career choices before the end of their high school years.

Partisipasi Anggaran dan Senjangan Anggaran Dengan Ketidakpastian Karir Sebagai Variabel Pemoderasi

The aim of this research is to analyze and obtain empirical evidence about the effect of budget participation on budgetary slack which is moderated by career uncertainty. This research was conducted at Regional Government Organizations (OPD) in the form of departments and agencies in Gianyar Regency. The research sample was determined using a purposive sampling method of 108 samples consisting of heads of departments/agencies, secretaries, finance sub-divisions and planning sub-divisions from each OPD. The data collection method used is a survey method with a questionnaire instrument. The data analysis technique used is Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The research obtained results that the budget participation variable had a positive effect on budget gaps and the career uncertainty variable weakened the effect of budget participation on budget gaps in the OPD of Gianyar Regency.
 Keywords: Budgetary Participation; Career Uncertainty; Budgetary Slack

COVID-19 상황에서 대학생들이 지각하는 진로불확실성 스트레스와 진로미결정의 관계

Objectives The purpose of this study was to help college students make career decisions by verifying the rela-tionship between career uncertainty stress, career stress coping strategies, resilience, and career undecided per-ceived by college students in the COVID-19 situation. Methods Multiple regression analysis was conducted based on the results of a survey conducted on first to fourth graders at a four-year university in Chungcheongnam-do, and PROCESS Macro was used to verify the mediating and moderating effects. Results First, it was confirmed that career uncertainty stress perceived by college students in the COVID-19 sit-uation had a positive (+) effect on career undecided decisions. Second, it was confirmed that the mediating effect of the avoidance strategy was significant in the relationship between the stress of career uncertainty and career undecided. Third, it was confirmed that among the career stress coping strategies of college students in the COVID-19 situation, the avoidance strategy has a statistically significant positive (+) effect on career undecided decisions. Fourth, it was confirmed that resilience has a moderating effect in the relationship between career stress coping strategies and career undecided. Conclusions It is of great significance in that it presented matters to be considered in career decisions by high-lighting the relationship between variables related to career decisions of college students in uncertain situations such as COVID-19.

The Psychological Impact on Chinese Pilot Students During the Pandemic – The Lesson Learned

This study was intrigued by routine onsite observation among pilot students who were concerned about the market downturn during the pandemic and career uncertainty in the post-pandemic time. The purpose of this study was to discover how COVID-19 affected pilot students and how they reacted and were accustomed to the pandemic regulations. Human Factors, psychological issues, and the status of safety culture were also surveyed. Purposive sampling was used to select two Chinese Civil Aviation Regulation (CCAR) Part 141 flight schools to participate in an online survey. The Cronbach’s alpha, and Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient were calculated. The findings exemplify the emergence of Human Factors and psychological issues, while the flight school’s safety culture remains strong. Simultaneously, the result of this study provides a reference for stakeholders at flight training institutes for coping with future similar crises.

Push–pull analysis of motocross and supercross athletes’ migration to the United States

This research aims to explore the migration of motocross and supercross athletes to the United States using the push–pull–anti-push–anti-pull framework. A purposive sampling method was employed to recruit motocross and supercross athletes who had migrated to the United States to compete in professional sport. Qualitative methodology in the form of personal interviews was employed to understand meanings participants made of their migration experiences. Codebook thematic analysis and deductive coding of data revealed themes that differed among participants from developed and developing countries, such as push–pull factors related to muscle drain and pursuit of the American dream, and anti-push–anti-pull factors related to strong family ties and career uncertainty. This research fills voids in the literature where prior scholars have explored athlete migration primarily among team-sport athletes in the context of European countries but have overlooked individual-sport athletes and the United States as the country of destination.

Text mining analysis of factors related to employment anxiety disorders among science and engineering students

BackgroundIn recent years, the issue of employment anxiety disorder among science and engineering college students has become increasingly prominent. The study analyzed the relevant factors of employment anxiety disorder among science and engineering students through text mining methods.Subjects and MethodsThe study selected students from a certain university of science and engineering as the research subjects and divided them into anxiety group and non-anxiety group. Social media data was used for text mining to identify factors related to employment anxiety disorder among science and engineering students. The statistical software SPSS23.0 is used to analyze data and evaluate the correlation of factors using methods such as t-tests or correlation coefficients.ResultsBy analyzing social media texts of science and engineering students, research has identified several factors related to employment anxiety. In the anxiety group, the score of employment pressure was significantly higher than that of the non-anxiety group (M=4.58 in the anxiety group, M=3.26 in the non-anxiety group, P<0.001), Score of career uncertainty (anxiety group M=3.92, non-anxiety group M=2.95, P<0.001), competitive pressure (anxiety group M=4.27, non-anxiety group M=3.18, P<0.001), and career development opportunities (anxiety group M=2.68, non-anxiety group M=3.52, P<0.001). The results showed significant high scores in the anxiety group.ConclusionsThe research provides valuable information for universities and related institutions to develop targeted coping measures and psychological support, thereby reducing the employment anxiety disorder of science and engineering students and promoting their career development.

Career Indecisiveness and its Impact on Social Adjustment and Anxiety among Adolescents

Abstract: A lack of education, experience, and exposure to diverse job alternatives may lead to professional indecisiveness, which is described as a condition of doubt or bewilderment in making career selections. This research aims to better understand how teenage career uncertainty affects their levels of anxiety and their capacity to form healthy social relationships. Anxiety, despair, tension, and poor self-esteem are only some of the negative effects linked to teenage career indecision.

International Research Review and Teaching Improvement Measures of College Students’ Learning Psychology under the Background of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on college education. College students have faced great difficulties in terms of learning and living during the lockdown period, which has brought many negative psychological effects. To explore the psychological states of college students learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and the reasons for these states, this study used CiteSpace to analyze 105 articles on WoS about college students’ learning psychology, and the results of this analysis were combined with an interpretation of the literature to summarize the research hotspots, development trends, learning psychology types, and reasons in this field. The main findings were as follows: (1) During the COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological state of learning college students mainly included academic burnout, learning anxiety, and learning pressure. (2) Academic burnout was affected by perceived usefulness and self-control and was manifested as not accepting online teaching and truancy. (3) Learning anxiety was affected by emotional support factors and was manifested as loneliness, anxiety about lockdown management, and fear of infection. (4) Learning pressure was affected by perceived ease-of-use, environmental support, and self-efficacy and was manifested by difficulties completing online learning tasks, academic performance, and future career uncertainty. Given the above findings, this study proposes corresponding teaching improvement measures from the perspective of the sustainability of the teaching methods of teachers and students’ continuous learning, providing teaching references for schools and teachers, and psychological support for students.

REIMAGINING CAREERS IN UNPROPITIOUS CREATIVE FIELDS THROUGH THE META-CREATIVITY OF ALTERNATIVE CREATIVITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Work by Abraham Maslow and others has proposed that a reasonable degree of fulfilment of various human needs is required for an individual to experience positive wellbeing. Given that an individual’s occupation provides vital financial, social, emotional, and cognitive resources, it is a key determinant of the degree to which their human needs are fulfilled. Some fields of work, such as music, can be described as unpropitious due to the unfavorable conditions awaiting skilled creators who seek to establish a full-time career; consequently, the human needs of such individuals may remain compromised. Alternative creativity is proposed as a type of meta-creativity that supports creative approaches to creative practice, and offers a new conceptual approach to careers in unpropitious creative fields. Alternative creativity provides hope for the many highly skilled musicians who exist in a state of perpetual career uncertainty, freeing them from the heavy burden of unrealistic expectations and the ensuing sense of failure that emerges when these expectations cannot be met. Ultimately, alternative creativity offers musicians the opportunity to reconceptualize and develop their creative practice while maintaining positive wellbeing through the fulfilment of their human needs.

Mental health outcomes in health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an umbrella review.

As we head into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing need to consider the long-term mental health outcomes of health care workers (HCWs) who have experienced overwhelming work pressure, economic and social deprivation, burnout, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This scoping umbrella review summarizes the mental health outcomes of published evidence syntheses on HCWs worldwide. We analyzed 39 evidence syntheses representing the findings from 1297 primary studies. We found several persistent fears and concerns (job-related fears, fear of stigmatization, worries about the pandemic, and infection-related fears) that shaped HCW experiences in delivering health care. We also describe several risk factors (job-related, social factors, poor physical and mental health, and inadequate coping strategies) and protective factors (individual and external factors). This is the first scoping umbrella review comprehensively documenting the various risk and protective factors that HCWs have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. HCWs continue to fear the risk that they may infect their family and friends since they regularly interact with COVID-19 patients. This places HCWs in a precarious situation requiring them to balance risk to their family and friends and potential social deprivation from isolation.

Occupational Stress: An Impediment to Quality Nurse–Patient Relationship – A Rapid Review

Given the complex nature of the effect of occupational stress also known as work or job stress, on the quality of nurse- patient relationship, it appears a daunting task reaching a unified definition of work stress because of the acknowledged fact that a singular approach may not be able to encompass the breadth of the phenomenon. This study aims to provide a general review of some of the challenges of stress on nurse–patient relationship, and causes of occupational stress were examined in light of the conceptual typology that portrays various sources of workplace stress and strategies in preventing occupational stress. The data for this study were from published studies. Electronic databases of Medline, Scopus, PubMed, CINAHL, and Google Scholar were searched using keywords: occupational stress, nurse- patient relationship and quality of nursing care literatures were retrieved and screened for eligibility. The date limit considered in the literature search was from 2016 to 2023 to capture only the variables identified in this study objective. Stress sources are consequentially known to produce dire organization and extra-organizational outcomes such as low morale, poor performance, career uncertainty, poor care, health problems, work-life conflict, turnover, and other reverse that undermine the competitive objectives of business. Stress curative measures are discussed to assist nurses to understand the significance of providing effective stress management interventions that can enhance employee well-being and organizational productivity.

Managing Butterfly Career Attitudes: The Moderating Interplay of Organisational Career Management

A protean career attitude is the most attractive and coping career adjustment attitude nowadays. Based on the social exchange theory, this study empirically analyses the association between protean career attitude and affective organisational commitment for Malaysian hotel industry employees. It also examines the COVID-19 situation’s retrospective repercussions and career uncertainty. The study also investigates the moderating role of organisational career management on the relationship between protean career attitudes and affective organisational commitment. During the pandemic, a cross-sectional survey was given to 403 hotel managers working in four- or five-star hotels. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling in Smart-PLS. The results showed that self-directed and value-driven protean career attitudes undermine affective organisational commitment. Organisational career management significantly moderated the relationship between a protean career attitude and affective organisational commitment. In light of this, organisational career management is essential when dealing with protean careers. Lastly, the person’s practical implications are significant. People should have a protean career attitude to deal with unpredictability, such as the COVID-19 epidemic and remain invincible over the long run.