International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology
CollabWritive Special Issue
2024 Volume 10 Issue 2
Available Online: 15 August 2024
Author/s:
Liu, Kai*
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines
Landicho, Lida C.
Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas, Philippines (lclandicho@lpubatangas.edu.ph)
Abstract:
At present, the employment situation of college students is grim, and the difficulty of employment is gradually increasing, the state and society began to pay attention to the current situation of college students’ employment, and more and more people began to pay attention to the influencing factors of the difficulty of career decision-making. Therefore, whether college students can make correct career decisions in employment will become one of the main factors of whether they are employed or not. Often, the decision-making process will include: lack of self-knowledge, lack of understanding of the major studied, lack of mastery of the situation of the employment environment and so on. That is why career identity and psychological flexibility are the main research areas of college students’ career decision-making difficulties. Based on the perspective of career identity and psychological flexibility to explore the career decision-making difficulties of higher vocational specialty students, to find its correlation, in order to reduce the career decision-making difficulties of college students and make correct career decisions. In this study, the current situation of college students’ professional identity, psychological flexibility and career decision-making difficulties and the correlation between the three were studied by using the College Students’ Professional Identity Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Scale and the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Scale. The study randomly selected 1,200 graduates of Anhui Finance and Trade Vocational College as the research object, obtaining a valid sample number of 1,106. The questionnaire data were statistically analyzed using software such as SPSS and AMOS. The conclusions of the study are: (1) There is a significant difference between college students’ career decision-making difficulties in terms of gender; and there is a significant difference between college students’ professional identity, psychological elasticity, and career decision-making difficulties in terms of professional choice. (2) There is a significant negative correlation between college students’ professional identity and career decision-making difficulties, and the higher the professional identity, the lower the career decision-making difficulties. There is a significant negative correlation between psychological elasticity and career decision-making difficulties among college students, and those with high levels of psychological elasticity have lower career decision-making difficulties. There is a significant positive correlation between college students’ professional identity and psychological flexibility, and the higher their professional identity, the higher their psychological flexibility. (3) Psychological flexibility plays a partial mediating role in professional identity and career decision-making difficulties.
Keywords: professional identity, psychological flexibility, career decision-making difficulties, university students
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsp.2024.018
Cite this article:
Liu, K., & Landicho, L. C. (2024). Professional identity, psychological flexibility and career decision-making difficulties among Chinese college graduating students. International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology, 10(2), 51-68. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsp.2024.018
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